This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ipmi: Reset the KCS timeout when starting error recovery

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ipmi-reset-the-kcs-timeout-when-starting-error-recovery.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From eb6d78ec213e6938559b801421d64714dafcf4b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:46:52 -0500
Subject: ipmi: Reset the KCS timeout when starting error recovery

From: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>

commit eb6d78ec213e6938559b801421d64714dafcf4b2 upstream.

The OBF timer in KCS was not reset in one situation when error recovery
was started, resulting in an immediate timeout.

Reported-by: Bodo Stroesser <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_sm.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_sm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_sm.c
@@ -251,8 +251,9 @@ static inline int check_obf(struct si_sm
        if (!GET_STATUS_OBF(status)) {
                kcs->obf_timeout -= time;
                if (kcs->obf_timeout < 0) {
-                   start_error_recovery(kcs, "OBF not ready in time");
-                   return 1;
+                       kcs->obf_timeout = OBF_RETRY_TIMEOUT;
+                       start_error_recovery(kcs, "OBF not ready in time");
+                       return 1;
                }
                return 0;
        }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.4/ipmi-reset-the-kcs-timeout-when-starting-error-recovery.patch
queue-3.4/ipmi-fix-a-race-restarting-the-timer.patch
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