On 04/10/2017 11:22 AM, Tony Camuso wrote:
> Commit 1abf71e moved the creation of new_smi->dev to earlier in the init
> sequence in order to provide infrastructure for log printing.
>
> However, the init_name was created with a hard-coded value of zero. This
> presents a problem in systems with more than one interface, producing a
> call trace in dmesg.
>
> To correct the problem, simply use smi_num instead of the hard-coded
> value of zero.

Yeah, you are right.  And there's more, the platform_device_alloc will
also be wrong, which is even worse.

I'll revise your patch a bit...

-corey

> Tested on a lenovo x3950.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <[email protected]>
> ---
>   drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c 
> b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> index 2a7c425..9d8fc51 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> @@ -3526,7 +3526,7 @@ static int try_smi_init(struct smi_info *new_smi)
>   
>       /* Do this early so it's available for logs. */
>       if (!new_smi->dev) {
> -             init_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "ipmi_si.%d", 0);
> +             init_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "ipmi_si.%d", smi_num);
>   
>               /*
>                * If we don't already have a device from something



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