]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/kernel/stable-queue.git/blame - releases/2.6.35.9/x86-olpc-don-t-retry-ec-commands-forever.patch
Fixes for 4.19
[thirdparty/kernel/stable-queue.git] / releases / 2.6.35.9 / x86-olpc-don-t-retry-ec-commands-forever.patch
CommitLineData
01803d42
GKH
1From 286e5b97eb22baab9d9a41ca76c6b933a484252c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2From: Paul Fox <pgf@laptop.org>
3Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:17:19 +0100
4Subject: x86, olpc: Don't retry EC commands forever
5
6From: Paul Fox <pgf@laptop.org>
7
8commit 286e5b97eb22baab9d9a41ca76c6b933a484252c upstream.
9
10Avoids a potential infinite loop.
11
12It was observed once, during an EC hacking/debugging
13session - not in regular operation.
14
15Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
16Cc: dilinger@queued.net
17Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
18Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
19
20---
21 arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c | 5 ++++-
22 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
23
24--- a/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c
25+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c
26@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ int olpc_ec_cmd(unsigned char cmd, unsig
27 unsigned long flags;
28 int ret = -EIO;
29 int i;
30+ int restarts = 0;
31
32 spin_lock_irqsave(&ec_lock, flags);
33
34@@ -173,7 +174,9 @@ restart:
35 if (wait_on_obf(0x6c, 1)) {
36 printk(KERN_ERR "olpc-ec: timeout waiting for"
37 " EC to provide data!\n");
38- goto restart;
39+ if (restarts++ < 10)
40+ goto restart;
41+ goto err;
42 }
43 outbuf[i] = inb(0x68);
44 printk(KERN_DEBUG "olpc-ec: received 0x%x\n",