linux-kernel - [patch 2.6.27.y 3/6] firewire: Survive more than 256 bus resets

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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:27:37 +0100 (CET)
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	stable@...nel.org
cc:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 2.6.27.y 3/6] firewire: Survive more than 256 bus resets

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:51:59 -0400
From: Jay Fenlason <fenlason@...hat.com>

The "color" is used during the topology building after a bus reset,
hovever in "struct fw_node"s it is stored in a u8, but in struct fw_card
it is stored in an int.  When the value wraps in one struct, but not
the other, disaster strikes.

Signed-off-by: Jay Fenlason <fenlason@...hat.com>

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10922 -
machine locks up solid if a series of bus resets occurs.

Same as commit 4f9740d4f5a17fa6a1b097fa3ccdfb7246660307.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
---
 drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h
+++ linux/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ struct fw_card {
 	struct fw_node *local_node;
 	struct fw_node *root_node;
 	struct fw_node *irm_node;
-	int color;
+	u8 color; /* must be u8 to match the definition in struct fw_node */
 	int gap_count;
 	bool beta_repeaters_present;
 

-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--- =-=- ==-==
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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