Re: [Patch 2/12] IPMI: remove interface number limits

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:24:22 -0600
Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> This patch removes the arbitrary limit of number of IPMI interfaces.
> This has been tested with 8 interfaces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Carol Hebert <cah@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ..
>
> +struct watcher_entry {
> +	struct list_head link;
> +	int intf_num;
> +};
> +
>  int ipmi_smi_watcher_register(struct ipmi_smi_watcher *watcher)
>  {
> -	int           i;
> -	unsigned long flags;
> +	ipmi_smi_t intf;
> +	struct list_head to_deliver = LIST_HEAD_INIT(to_deliver);
> +	struct watcher_entry *e, *e2;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&ipmi_interfaces_mutex);
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry_rcu(intf, &ipmi_interfaces, link) {
> +		if (intf->intf_num == -1)
> +			continue;
> +		e = kmalloc(sizeof(*e), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!e)
> +			goto out_err;

You miss a mutex_unlock(&ipmi_interfaces_mutex) here

> +		e->intf_num = intf->intf_num;
> +		list_add_tail(&e->link, &to_deliver);
> +	}
>  
>  	down_write(&smi_watchers_sem);
>  	list_add(&(watcher->link), &smi_watchers);
>  	up_write(&smi_watchers_sem);
> -	spin_lock_irqsave(&interfaces_lock, flags);
> -	for (i = 0; i < MAX_IPMI_INTERFACES; i++) {
> -		ipmi_smi_t intf = ipmi_interfaces[i];
> -		if (IPMI_INVALID_INTERFACE(intf))
> -			continue;
> -		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&interfaces_lock, flags);
> -		watcher->new_smi(i, intf->si_dev);
> -		spin_lock_irqsave(&interfaces_lock, flags);
> +
> +	mutex_unlock(&ipmi_interfaces_mutex);
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(e, e2, &to_deliver, link) {
> +		list_del(&e->link);
> +		watcher->new_smi(e->intf_num, intf->si_dev);
> +		kfree(e);
>  	}
> -	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&interfaces_lock, flags);
> +
> +
>  	return 0;
> +
> + out_err:
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(e, e2, &to_deliver, link) {
> +		list_del(&e->link);
> +		kfree(e);
> +	}
> +	return -ENOMEM;
>  }
>  
> ...
>

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