[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "EDAC: Poll timeout cannot be zero, p2" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    EDAC: Poll timeout cannot be zero, p2

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.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 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 11cf3417106530688dbee256cde2f56d56fbb390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:05:13 -0500
Subject: EDAC: Poll timeout cannot be zero, p2

commit 9da21b1509d8aa7ab4846722817d16c72d656c91 upstream.

Sanitize code even more to accept unsigned longs only and to not allow
polling intervals below 1 second as this is unnecessary and doesn't make
much sense anyway for polling errors.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391457913-881-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com
Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson at xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/edac/edac_mc.c       |  4 ++--
 drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 10 ++++++----
 drivers/edac/edac_module.h   |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
index 89e1090..705f0a3 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ static void edac_mc_workq_teardown(struct mem_ctl_info *mci)
  *	user space has updated our poll period value, need to
  *	reset our workq delays
  */
-void edac_mc_reset_delay_period(int value)
+void edac_mc_reset_delay_period(unsigned long value)
 {
 	struct mem_ctl_info *mci;
 	struct list_head *item;
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ void edac_mc_reset_delay_period(int value)
 	list_for_each(item, &mc_devices) {
 		mci = list_entry(item, struct mem_ctl_info, link);

-		edac_mc_workq_setup(mci, (unsigned long) value);
+		edac_mc_workq_setup(mci, value);
 	}

 	mutex_unlock(&mem_ctls_mutex);
diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
index c855b71..e5bdf21 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
@@ -52,18 +52,20 @@ int edac_mc_get_poll_msec(void)

 static int edac_set_poll_msec(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
 {
-	long l;
+	unsigned long l;
 	int ret;

 	if (!val)
 		return -EINVAL;

-	ret = kstrtol(val, 0, &l);
+	ret = kstrtoul(val, 0, &l);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
-	if (!l || ((int)l != l))
+
+	if (l < 1000)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	*((int *)kp->arg) = l;
+
+	*((unsigned long *)kp->arg) = l;

 	/* notify edac_mc engine to reset the poll period */
 	edac_mc_reset_delay_period(l);
diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_module.h b/drivers/edac/edac_module.h
index 3d139c6..f2118bf 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_module.h
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_module.h
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ extern void edac_device_workq_setup(struct edac_device_ctl_info *edac_dev,
 extern void edac_device_workq_teardown(struct edac_device_ctl_info *edac_dev);
 extern void edac_device_reset_delay_period(struct edac_device_ctl_info
 					   *edac_dev, unsigned long value);
-extern void edac_mc_reset_delay_period(int value);
+extern void edac_mc_reset_delay_period(unsigned long value);

 extern void *edac_align_ptr(void **p, unsigned size, int n_elems);

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1.9.0