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authorCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>2006-03-31 02:30:39 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-31 12:18:54 -0800
commit453823ba08ba762b3d58934b6dce75edce37169e (patch)
tree80170bf784145621467ba83ea44d25dc3e5e5964 /include/linux
parentee37df7877eeaa16d7761cce64854110a7c17ad9 (diff)
[PATCH] IPMI: fix startup race condition
Matt Domsch noticed a startup race with the IPMI kernel thread, it was possible (though extraordinarly unlikely) that a message could come in before the upper layer was ready to handle it. This patch splits the startup processing of an IPMI interface into two parts, one to get ready and one to actually start the processes to receive messages from the interface. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ipmi_smi.h16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ipmi_smi.h b/include/linux/ipmi_smi.h
index 53571288a9f..6d9c7e4da47 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipmi_smi.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipmi_smi.h
@@ -82,6 +82,13 @@ struct ipmi_smi_handlers
{
struct module *owner;
+ /* The low-level interface cannot start sending messages to
+ the upper layer until this function is called. This may
+ not be NULL, the lower layer must take the interface from
+ this call. */
+ int (*start_processing)(void *send_info,
+ ipmi_smi_t new_intf);
+
/* Called to enqueue an SMI message to be sent. This
operation is not allowed to fail. If an error occurs, it
should report back the error in a received message. It may
@@ -157,13 +164,16 @@ static inline void ipmi_demangle_device_id(unsigned char *data,
}
/* Add a low-level interface to the IPMI driver. Note that if the
- interface doesn't know its slave address, it should pass in zero. */
+ interface doesn't know its slave address, it should pass in zero.
+ The low-level interface should not deliver any messages to the
+ upper layer until the start_processing() function in the handlers
+ is called, and the lower layer must get the interface from that
+ call. */
int ipmi_register_smi(struct ipmi_smi_handlers *handlers,
void *send_info,
struct ipmi_device_id *device_id,
struct device *dev,
- unsigned char slave_addr,
- ipmi_smi_t *intf);
+ unsigned char slave_addr);
/*
* Remove a low-level interface from the IPMI driver. This will