ipmi: Remove smi_msg from waiting_rcv_msgs list before handle_one_recv_msg()
Commit 7ea0ed2b ("ipmi: Make the message handler easier to use for SMI interfaces") changed handle_new_recv_msgs() to call handle_one_recv_msg() for a smi_msg while the smi_msg is still connected to waiting_rcv_msgs list. That could lead to following list corruption problems: 1) low-level function treats smi_msg as not connected to list handle_one_recv_msg() could end up calling smi_send(), which assumes the msg is not connected to list. For example, the following sequence could corrupt list by doing list_add_tail() for the entry still connected to other list. handle_new_recv_msgs() msg = list_entry(waiting_rcv_msgs) handle_one_recv_msg(msg) handle_ipmb_get_msg_cmd(msg) smi_send(msg) spin_lock(xmit_msgs_lock) list_add_tail(msg) spin_unlock(xmit_msgs_lock) 2) race between multiple handle_new_recv_msgs() instances handle_new_recv_msgs() once releases waiting_rcv_msgs_lock before calling handle_one_recv_msg() then retakes the lock and list_del() it. If others call handle_new_recv_msgs() during the window shown below list_del() will be done twice for the same smi_msg. handle_new_recv_msgs() spin_lock(waiting_rcv_msgs_lock) msg = list_entry(waiting_rcv_msgs) spin_unlock(waiting_rcv_msgs_lock) | | handle_one_recv_msg(msg) | spin_lock(waiting_rcv_msgs_lock) list_del(msg) spin_unlock(waiting_rcv_msgs_lock) Fixes: 7ea0ed2b ("ipmi: Make the message handler easier to use for SMI interfaces") Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> [Added a comment to describe why this works.] Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.19 Tested-by: Ye Feng <yefeng.yl@alibaba-inc.com>
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