[PATCH] IPMI: fix timeout list handling

Fix a dangling pointer bug in ipmi_timeout_handler.  A list of timedout
messages is not re-initialized before reuse, causing the head of the list
to point to freed memory.

Signed-off-by: David Barksdale <amatus@ocgnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index 4e4691a..53582b5 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -3649,8 +3649,6 @@ static void ipmi_timeout_handler(long timeout_period)
        unsigned long        flags;
        int                  i;
 
-       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&timeouts);
-
        rcu_read_lock();
        list_for_each_entry_rcu(intf, &ipmi_interfaces, link) {
                /* See if any waiting messages need to be processed. */
@@ -3671,6 +3669,7 @@ static void ipmi_timeout_handler(long timeout_period)
                /* Go through the seq table and find any messages that
                   have timed out, putting them in the timeouts
                   list. */
+               INIT_LIST_HEAD(&timeouts);
                spin_lock_irqsave(&intf->seq_lock, flags);
                for (i = 0; i < IPMI_IPMB_NUM_SEQ; i++)
                        check_msg_timeout(intf, &(intf->seq_table[i]),