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<title>ipmi: fix refcount leak in i_ipmi_request()</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wentao Liang</name>
<email>vulab@iscas.ac.cn</email>
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<published>2026-06-03T12:06:34+00:00</published>
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commit a3f3859cecacb64f18fd446271ece9a3b3f2d4de upstream.

When a caller provides a `supplied_recv` message to i_ipmi_request(),
the function increments the user's `nr_msgs` reference count. If an
error occurs later, the out_err cleanup path only frees the recv_msg
if the function allocated it itself (i.e., !supplied_recv). In the
supplied_recv case the cleanup is skipped, leaving the reference count
elevated. The caller ipmi_request_supply_msgs() does not release the
supplied_recv on error, so the reference is permanently leaked.

Fix this by explicitly reverting the reference count operations when a
supplied recv_msg with a valid user pointer is present in the error
path: decrement nr_msgs and drop the user's kref.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b52da4054ee0 ("ipmi: Rework user message limit handling")
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang &lt;vulab@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20260603120634.3758747-1-vulab@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a3f3859cecacb64f18fd446271ece9a3b3f2d4de upstream.

When a caller provides a `supplied_recv` message to i_ipmi_request(),
the function increments the user's `nr_msgs` reference count. If an
error occurs later, the out_err cleanup path only frees the recv_msg
if the function allocated it itself (i.e., !supplied_recv). In the
supplied_recv case the cleanup is skipped, leaving the reference count
elevated. The caller ipmi_request_supply_msgs() does not release the
supplied_recv on error, so the reference is permanently leaked.

Fix this by explicitly reverting the reference count operations when a
supplied recv_msg with a valid user pointer is present in the error
path: decrement nr_msgs and drop the user's kref.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b52da4054ee0 ("ipmi: Rework user message limit handling")
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang &lt;vulab@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20260603120634.3758747-1-vulab@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi: Fix user refcount underflow in event delivery</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>mfleming@cloudflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-21T13:06:27+00:00</published>
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commit 6aa9e61c46465d231e9beddf56af7effd71be682 upstream.

ipmi_alloc_recv_msg(user) takes the temporary user reference owned by the
receive message, and ipmi_free_recv_msg() drops it again. If event delivery
fails after allocating receive messages for earlier users,
handle_read_event_rsp() rolls those messages back with
ipmi_free_recv_msg().

That rollback path still drops user-&gt;refcount explicitly after freeing each
message. The extra put can free a user that remains linked on intf-&gt;users,
so later event delivery may dereference a freed user or trip refcount_t's
addition-on-zero warning when ipmi_alloc_recv_msg() tries to acquire
another reference.

Remove the stale explicit put and the now-dead user assignment. Keep the
list_del() and ipmi_free_recv_msg() calls; they are the required rollback
operations.

Fixes: b52da4054ee0 ("ipmi: Rework user message limit handling")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.18+
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@cloudflare.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20260521130628.3641050-1-matt@readmodwrite.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 6aa9e61c46465d231e9beddf56af7effd71be682 upstream.

ipmi_alloc_recv_msg(user) takes the temporary user reference owned by the
receive message, and ipmi_free_recv_msg() drops it again. If event delivery
fails after allocating receive messages for earlier users,
handle_read_event_rsp() rolls those messages back with
ipmi_free_recv_msg().

That rollback path still drops user-&gt;refcount explicitly after freeing each
message. The extra put can free a user that remains linked on intf-&gt;users,
so later event delivery may dereference a freed user or trip refcount_t's
addition-on-zero warning when ipmi_alloc_recv_msg() tries to acquire
another reference.

Remove the stale explicit put and the now-dead user assignment. Keep the
list_del() and ipmi_free_recv_msg() calls; they are the required rollback
operations.

Fixes: b52da4054ee0 ("ipmi: Rework user message limit handling")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.18+
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@cloudflare.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20260521130628.3641050-1-matt@readmodwrite.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi:ssif: NULL thread on error</title>
<updated>2026-04-28T17:59:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Minyard</name>
<email>corey@minyard.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-21T11:50:22+00:00</published>
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Cleanup code was checking the thread for NULL, but it was possibly
a PTR_ERR() in one spot.

Spotted with static analysis.

Link: https://sourceforge.net/p/openipmi/mailman/message/59324676/
Fixes: 75c486cb1bca ("ipmi:ssif: Clean up kthread on errors")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 91eb7ec72612: ipmi:ssif: Remove unnecessary indention
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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Cleanup code was checking the thread for NULL, but it was possibly
a PTR_ERR() in one spot.

Spotted with static analysis.

Link: https://sourceforge.net/p/openipmi/mailman/message/59324676/
Fixes: 75c486cb1bca ("ipmi:ssif: Clean up kthread on errors")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 91eb7ec72612: ipmi:ssif: Remove unnecessary indention
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi:si: Return state to normal if message allocation fails</title>
<updated>2026-04-28T17:59:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Minyard</name>
<email>corey@minyard.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-20T18:02:18+00:00</published>
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There were places where nothing would get started if a message
allocation failed, so the driver needs to return to normal state.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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There were places where nothing would get started if a message
allocation failed, so the driver needs to return to normal state.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi: Add limits to event and receive message requests</title>
<updated>2026-04-28T17:59:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Minyard</name>
<email>corey@minyard.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-20T17:39:51+00:00</published>
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The driver would just fetch events and receive messages until the
BMC said it was done.  To avoid issues with BMCs that never say they are
done, add a limit of 10 fetches at a time.

In addition, an si interface has an attn state it can return from the
hardware which is supposed to cause a flag fetch to see if the driver
needs to fetch events or message or a few other things.  If the attn
bit gets stuck, it's a similar problem.  So allow messages in between
flag fetches so the driver itself doesn't get stuck.

This is a more general fix than the previous fix for the specific bad
BMC, but should fix the more general issue of a BMC that won't stop
saying it has data.

This has been there from the beginning of the driver.  It's not a bug
per-se, but it is accounting for bugs in BMCs.

Reported-by: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@cloudflare.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260415115930.3428942-1-matt@readmodwrite.com/
Fixes: &lt;1da177e4c3f4&gt; ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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The driver would just fetch events and receive messages until the
BMC said it was done.  To avoid issues with BMCs that never say they are
done, add a limit of 10 fetches at a time.

In addition, an si interface has an attn state it can return from the
hardware which is supposed to cause a flag fetch to see if the driver
needs to fetch events or message or a few other things.  If the attn
bit gets stuck, it's a similar problem.  So allow messages in between
flag fetches so the driver itself doesn't get stuck.

This is a more general fix than the previous fix for the specific bad
BMC, but should fix the more general issue of a BMC that won't stop
saying it has data.

This has been there from the beginning of the driver.  It's not a bug
per-se, but it is accounting for bugs in BMCs.

Reported-by: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@cloudflare.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260415115930.3428942-1-matt@readmodwrite.com/
Fixes: &lt;1da177e4c3f4&gt; ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi: Check event message buffer response for bad data</title>
<updated>2026-04-21T12:29:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Minyard</name>
<email>corey@minyard.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-20T17:50:09+00:00</published>
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The event message buffer response data size got checked later when
processing, but check it right after the response comes back.  It
appears some BMCs may return an empty message instead of an error
when fetching events.

There are apparently some new BMCs that make this error, so we need to
compensate.

Reported-by: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@cloudflare.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260415115930.3428942-1-matt@readmodwrite.com/
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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The event message buffer response data size got checked later when
processing, but check it right after the response comes back.  It
appears some BMCs may return an empty message instead of an error
when fetching events.

There are apparently some new BMCs that make this error, so we need to
compensate.

Reported-by: Matt Fleming &lt;mfleming@cloudflare.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260415115930.3428942-1-matt@readmodwrite.com/
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi:ssif: Clean up kthread on errors</title>
<updated>2026-04-17T11:47:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Minyard</name>
<email>corey@minyard.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-13T13:00:23+00:00</published>
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If an error occurs after the ssif kthread is created, but before the
main IPMI code starts the ssif interface, the ssif kthread will not
be stopped.

So make sure the kthread is stopped on an error condition if it is
running.

Fixes: 259307074bfc ("ipmi: Add SMBus interface driver (SSIF)")
Reported-by: Li Xiao &lt;&lt;252270051@hdu.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Li Xiao &lt;252270051@hdu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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If an error occurs after the ssif kthread is created, but before the
main IPMI code starts the ssif interface, the ssif kthread will not
be stopped.

So make sure the kthread is stopped on an error condition if it is
running.

Fixes: 259307074bfc ("ipmi: Add SMBus interface driver (SSIF)")
Reported-by: Li Xiao &lt;&lt;252270051@hdu.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Li Xiao &lt;252270051@hdu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi:ssif: Remove unnecessary indention</title>
<updated>2026-04-13T12:09:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Minyard</name>
<email>corey@minyard.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-13T12:09:15+00:00</published>
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A section was in {} that didn't need to be, move the variable
definition to the top and set th eindentino properly.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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A section was in {} that didn't need to be, move the variable
definition to the top and set th eindentino properly.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi: ssif_bmc: Fix KUnit test link failure when KUNIT=m</title>
<updated>2026-04-07T12:33:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jian Zhang</name>
<email>zhangjian.3032@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-07T09:46:47+00:00</published>
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Building with CONFIG_KUNIT=m and CONFIG_SSIF_IPMI_BMC_KUNIT_TEST=y
results in link errors such as:

  undefined reference to `kunit_binary_assert_format'
  undefined reference to `__kunit_do_failed_assertion'

This happens because the test code is built-in while the KUnit core
is built as a module, so the required KUnit symbols are not available
at link time.

Fix this by requiring KUNIT to be built-in when enabling
SSIF_IPMI_BMC_KUNIT_TEST.

Signed-off-by: Jian Zhang &lt;zhangjian.3032@bytedance.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202604071448.zUBjPYPu-lkp@intel.com/
Message-ID: &lt;20260407094647.356661-1-zhangjian.3032@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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Building with CONFIG_KUNIT=m and CONFIG_SSIF_IPMI_BMC_KUNIT_TEST=y
results in link errors such as:

  undefined reference to `kunit_binary_assert_format'
  undefined reference to `__kunit_do_failed_assertion'

This happens because the test code is built-in while the KUnit core
is built as a module, so the required KUnit symbols are not available
at link time.

Fix this by requiring KUNIT to be built-in when enabling
SSIF_IPMI_BMC_KUNIT_TEST.

Signed-off-by: Jian Zhang &lt;zhangjian.3032@bytedance.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202604071448.zUBjPYPu-lkp@intel.com/
Message-ID: &lt;20260407094647.356661-1-zhangjian.3032@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi: ssif_bmc: add unit test for state machine</title>
<updated>2026-04-03T15:23:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jian Zhang</name>
<email>zhangjian.3032@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-03T14:39:38+00:00</published>
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Add some unit test for state machine when in SSIF_ABORTING state.

Fixes: dd2bc5cc9e25 ("ipmi: ssif_bmc: Add SSIF BMC driver")
Signed-off-by: Jian Zhang &lt;zhangjian.3032@bytedance.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20260403143939.434017-1-zhangjian.3032@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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Add some unit test for state machine when in SSIF_ABORTING state.

Fixes: dd2bc5cc9e25 ("ipmi: ssif_bmc: Add SSIF BMC driver")
Signed-off-by: Jian Zhang &lt;zhangjian.3032@bytedance.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20260403143939.434017-1-zhangjian.3032@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
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