ipmi: move timer init to before irq is setup

commit 27f972d3e00b50639deb4cc1392afaeb08d3cecc upstream.

We encountered a panic on boot in ipmi_si on a dell per320 due to an
uninitialized timer as follows.

static int smi_start_processing(void       *send_info,
                                ipmi_smi_t intf)
{
        /* Try to claim any interrupts. */
        if (new_smi->irq_setup)
                new_smi->irq_setup(new_smi);

 --> IRQ arrives here and irq handler tries to modify uninitialized timer

    which triggers BUG_ON(!timer->function) in __mod_timer().

 Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   [<ffffffffa0532617>] start_new_msg+0x47/0x80 [ipmi_si]
   [<ffffffffa053269e>] start_check_enables+0x4e/0x60 [ipmi_si]
   [<ffffffffa0532bd8>] smi_event_handler+0x1e8/0x640 [ipmi_si]
   [<ffffffff810f5584>] ? __rcu_process_callbacks+0x54/0x350
   [<ffffffffa053327c>] si_irq_handler+0x3c/0x60 [ipmi_si]
   [<ffffffff810efaf0>] handle_IRQ_event+0x60/0x170
   [<ffffffff810f245e>] handle_edge_irq+0xde/0x180
   [<ffffffff8100fc59>] handle_irq+0x49/0xa0
   [<ffffffff8154643c>] do_IRQ+0x6c/0xf0
   [<ffffffff8100ba53>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11

        /* Set up the timer that drives the interface. */
        setup_timer(&new_smi->si_timer, smi_timeout, (long)new_smi);

The following patch fixes the problem.

To: Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 9397ab4..636a8dd 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -1148,15 +1148,15 @@ static int smi_start_processing(void       *send_info,
 
        new_smi->intf = intf;
 
-       /* Try to claim any interrupts. */
-       if (new_smi->irq_setup)
-               new_smi->irq_setup(new_smi);
-
        /* Set up the timer that drives the interface. */
        setup_timer(&new_smi->si_timer, smi_timeout, (long)new_smi);
        new_smi->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
        mod_timer(&new_smi->si_timer, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
 
+       /* Try to claim any interrupts. */
+       if (new_smi->irq_setup)
+               new_smi->irq_setup(new_smi);
+
        /*
         * Check if the user forcefully enabled the daemon.
         */