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authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>2025-10-06 13:18:57 -0700
committerCorey Minyard <corey@minyard.net>2025-10-07 06:50:08 -0500
commite2c69490dda5d4c9f1bfbb2898989c8f3530e354 (patch)
tree5cc0600d032447af3e9381b94a227aec197d82c4
parent4af66c2bcab06e6e515b23139122e745d7619680 (diff)
ipmi: Fix handling of messages with provided receive message pointer
Prior to commit b52da4054ee0 ("ipmi: Rework user message limit handling"), i_ipmi_request() used to increase the user reference counter if the receive message is provided by the caller of IPMI API functions. This is no longer the case. However, ipmi_free_recv_msg() is still called and decreases the reference counter. This results in the reference counter reaching zero, the user data pointer is released, and all kinds of interesting crashes are seen. Fix the problem by increasing user reference counter if the receive message has been provided by the caller. Fixes: b52da4054ee0 ("ipmi: Rework user message limit handling") Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Message-ID: <20251006201857.3433837-1-linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <corey@minyard.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index a0b67a35a5f0..3700ab4eba3e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -2301,8 +2301,11 @@ static int i_ipmi_request(struct ipmi_user *user,
if (supplied_recv) {
recv_msg = supplied_recv;
recv_msg->user = user;
- if (user)
+ if (user) {
atomic_inc(&user->nr_msgs);
+ /* The put happens when the message is freed. */
+ kref_get(&user->refcount);
+ }
} else {
recv_msg = ipmi_alloc_recv_msg(user);
if (IS_ERR(recv_msg))