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authorThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>2021-12-17 12:44:09 -0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-12-29 12:20:46 +0100
commitdb0d90490674c297a2e15a1ca3e40cd6975c30dc (patch)
treecbf596d05ba855cfdb9e192d61d4d8c269bc83b4
parentf29fe79e02fcc0458c56553ee925ac93bed71e6e (diff)
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ipmi: bail out if init_srcu_struct fails
commit 2b5160b12091285c5aca45980f100a9294af7b04 upstream. In case, init_srcu_struct fails (because of memory allocation failure), we might proceed with the driver initialization despite srcu_struct not being entirely initialized. Fixes: 913a89f009d9 ("ipmi: Don't initialize anything in the core until something uses it") Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: <20211217154410.1228673-1-cascardo@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index 6db709e2c34b..2cbcf9f7935b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -5085,7 +5085,9 @@ static int ipmi_init_msghandler(void)
if (initialized)
goto out;
- init_srcu_struct(&ipmi_interfaces_srcu);
+ rv = init_srcu_struct(&ipmi_interfaces_srcu);
+ if (rv)
+ goto out;
timer_setup(&ipmi_timer, ipmi_timeout, 0);
mod_timer(&ipmi_timer, jiffies + IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);