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Bug #11839

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ipmi_close can panic trying to free invalid dev_t

Added by Albert Lee over 3 years ago.

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driver - device drivers
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We've experienced panics in ipmi_close calling id_free which bottoms out in a vmem_hash_delete with a NULL address. This is due to an invalid id_t present at the time the pseudo device is allocated in ipmi_open. It comes from id_alloc_nosleep which is allowed to return -1 if no memory is available without sleeping. id_ts are translated from vmem arena addresses by decrementing by 1, so this is a NULL address internally. ipmi_open incorrectly handles the id_alloc_nosleep error case as 0 instead of -1. It should just use id_alloc() as it also performs other sleeping allocations already.

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