Re: IPMI hangup in 2.6.6-rc3

[Alex Williamson]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 14:42, Corey Minyard wrote:
> I cannot figure out from the traceback what is wrong, and I haven't been 
> able to reproduce this, even with ipmitool.
> 
> What kernel version are you running?  Can you verify that the attached 
> patch is in your code?
> 

   This fixed it for me.  I was running on stock 2.6.7, which does not
include the patch below.  My test program now works.  Thanks,

	Alex

> --- linux-2.6.7-rc3-full/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c.orig	Wed Jun  9 12:08:23 2004
> +++ linux-2.6.7-rc3-full/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c	Wed Jun  9 12:07:09 2004
> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static int handle_send_req(ipmi_user_t  
>  			goto out;
>  		}
>  
> -		if (copy_from_user(&msgdata,
> +		if (copy_from_user(msgdata,
>  				   req->msg.data,
>  				   req->msg.data_len))
>  		{
> 
> 
> If that doesn't help, can you upgrade to 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 and re-try this 
> patch?
> 
> If that doesn't help, Can you turn on frame pointers and try again?  
> This will give a cleaner backtrace.
> 
> -Corey


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