linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] IPMI bug fixes for 6.17

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Message-ID: <aJO-ExS1Zz-eMuZe@mail.minyard.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 15:41:55 -0500
From: Corey Minyard <corey@...yard.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: [GIT PULL] IPMI bug fixes for 6.17

Something came in a bit late (the rate limiting patch) that I wanted to
get in, so I waited a bit with it in the next tree before requesting
a pull.

The following changes since commit cd2e103d57e5615f9bb027d772f93b9efd567224:

  Merge tag 'hardening-v6.16-rc1-fix1-take2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux (2025-06-01 11:37:01 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi.git tags/for-linus-6.17-1

for you to fetch changes up to ec50ec378e3fd83bde9b3d622ceac3509a60b6b5:

  ipmi: Use dev_warn_ratelimited() for incorrect message warnings (2025-07-10 07:59:43 -0500)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Some small fixes for the IPMI driver
Nothing huge, some rate limiting on logs, a strncpy fix where the source
and destination could be the same, and removal of some unused cruft.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Breno Leitao (1):
      ipmi: Use dev_warn_ratelimited() for incorrect message warnings

Colin Ian King (1):
      char: ipmi: remove redundant variable 'type' and check

Corey Minyard (1):
      ipmi: Fix strcpy source and destination the same

 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c |  8 ++---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c    |  4 ---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c   | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)