Yes, you are right. I've pulled this in to my tree. Looking at this, ipmi_mutex really should go away and be replaced bu something that scales better, but I guess it's not that critical for IPMI.

-corey

On 05/13/2013 02:39 PM, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
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.
This is probably a candidate for -stable as well.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <b...@kvack.org>
---
  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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,

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