Yes, you are right. I've pulled this in to my tree. Looking at this,
ipmi_mutex really should go away and be replaced bu something that
scales better, but I guess it's not that critical for IPMI.
-corey
On 05/13/2013 02:39 PM, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
When a 32 bit version of ipmitool is use
When a 32 bit version of ipmitool is used on a 64 bit kernel, the
ipmi_devintf code fails to correctly acquire ipmi_mutex. This results in
incomplete data being retrieved in some cases, or other possible failures.
Add a wrapper around compat_ipmi_ioctl() to take ipmi_mutex to fix this.
This is pro
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