3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit a94cdd1f4d30f12904ab528152731fb13a812a16 upstream. In read_all_bytes, we do unsigned char i; ... bt->read_data[0] = BMC2HOST; bt->read_count = bt->read_data[0]; ... for (i = 1; i <= bt->read_count; i++) bt->read_data[i] = BMC2HOST; If bt->read_data[0] == bt->read_count == 255, we loop infinitely in the 'for' loop. Make 'i' an 'int' instead of 'char' to get rid of the overflow and finish the loop after 255 iterations every time. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> Reported-and-debugged-by: Rui Hui Dian <rhdian@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tomas Cech <tcech@xxxxxxx> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> Cc: <openipmi-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c index a22a7a502740..8156cafad11a 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static inline void write_all_bytes(struct si_sm_data *bt) static inline int read_all_bytes(struct si_sm_data *bt) { - unsigned char i; + unsigned int i; /* * length is "framing info", minimum = 4: NetFn, Seq, Cmd, cCode. -- 1.9.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html