[PATCH] IPMI: Clean up the waiting message queue properly on unload
authorCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Thu, 9 Nov 2006 01:44:52 +0000 (17:44 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Thu, 9 Nov 2006 02:29:24 +0000 (18:29 -0800)
A wrong function was being used to free a list; this fixes the problem.
Otherwise, an oops at unload time was possible.  But not likely, since you
can't have any users when you unload the modules and it is very hard to get
messages into this queue without users.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Patrick Schoeller <Patrick.Schoeller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c

index 34a4fd13fa817ec0241a05157593872716b49600..e55a0d276729f835026a1d0eb8d1056efb7d4918 100644 (file)
@@ -376,13 +376,23 @@ static void free_recv_msg_list(struct list_head *q)
        }
 }
 
+static void free_smi_msg_list(struct list_head *q)
+{
+       struct ipmi_smi_msg *msg, *msg2;
+
+       list_for_each_entry_safe(msg, msg2, q, link) {
+               list_del(&msg->link);
+               ipmi_free_smi_msg(msg);
+       }
+}
+
 static void clean_up_interface_data(ipmi_smi_t intf)
 {
        int              i;
        struct cmd_rcvr  *rcvr, *rcvr2;
        struct list_head list;
 
-       free_recv_msg_list(&intf->waiting_msgs);
+       free_smi_msg_list(&intf->waiting_msgs);
        free_recv_msg_list(&intf->waiting_events);
 
        /* Wholesale remove all the entries from the list in the