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 <[email protected]>
> ---
>   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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