[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ipmi: ipmi_devintf: compat_ioctl method fails to take ipmi_mutex" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ipmi: ipmi_devintf: compat_ioctl method fails to take ipmi_mutex

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 48a527577eb35b1f8d35705593a422c6bd722f99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl at kvack.org>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 14:04:27 -0500
Subject: ipmi: ipmi_devintf: compat_ioctl method fails to take ipmi_mutex

commit 6368087e851e697679af059b4247aca33a69cef3 upstream.

When a 32 bit version of ipmitool is used on a 64 bit kernel, the
ipmi_devintf code fails to correctly acquire ipmi_mutex.  This results in
incomplete data being retrieved in some cases, or other possible failures.
Add a wrapper around compat_ipmi_ioctl() to take ipmi_mutex to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl at kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard at mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
index 9eb360f..d5a5f02 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
@@ -837,13 +837,25 @@ static long compat_ipmi_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd,
 		return ipmi_ioctl(filep, cmd, arg);
 	}
 }
+
+static long unlocked_compat_ipmi_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd,
+				       unsigned long arg)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&ipmi_mutex);
+	ret = compat_ipmi_ioctl(filep, cmd, arg);
+	mutex_unlock(&ipmi_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
 #endif

 static const struct file_operations ipmi_fops = {
 	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
 	.unlocked_ioctl	= ipmi_unlocked_ioctl,
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
-	.compat_ioctl   = compat_ipmi_ioctl,
+	.compat_ioctl   = unlocked_compat_ipmi_ioctl,
 #endif
 	.open		= ipmi_open,
 	.release	= ipmi_release,
--
1.8.1.2