From: Peter Oberparleiter Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:18:59 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [S390] sclp: handle empty event buffers X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e2e5a0f2b100a5204d27def8bbf73333d1710be2;p=linux-beck.git [S390] sclp: handle empty event buffers Handle a malformed hardware response which some versions of the Support Element (SE) may present during SE restart and which otherwise would result in an endless loop in function sclp_dispatch_evbufs. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c b/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c index 1fd8f2193ed8..4377e93a43d7 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c +++ b/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c @@ -280,8 +280,11 @@ sclp_dispatch_evbufs(struct sccb_header *sccb) rc = 0; for (offset = sizeof(struct sccb_header); offset < sccb->length; offset += evbuf->length) { - /* Search for event handler */ evbuf = (struct evbuf_header *) ((addr_t) sccb + offset); + /* Check for malformed hardware response */ + if (evbuf->length == 0) + break; + /* Search for event handler */ reg = NULL; list_for_each(l, &sclp_reg_list) { reg = list_entry(l, struct sclp_register, list);