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authorPaul Fox <pgf@laptop.org>2010-10-01 18:17:19 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-03-21 12:43:31 -0700
commitf7ccf80244281eb78192832d075c989788f5f62f (patch)
treeb707d2e16548159cc00271222d328ab275bf4cf8 /arch
parent566707d3db2f92e74c25e8f948ced035d6756f7e (diff)
x86, olpc: Don't retry EC commands forever
commit 286e5b97eb22baab9d9a41ca76c6b933a484252c upstream. Avoids a potential infinite loop. It was observed once, during an EC hacking/debugging session - not in regular operation. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Cc: dilinger@queued.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c
index 9d1d263f786f..434dfd58fc42 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ int olpc_ec_cmd(unsigned char cmd, unsigned char *inbuf, size_t inlen,
unsigned long flags;
int ret = -EIO;
int i;
+ int restarts = 0;
spin_lock_irqsave(&ec_lock, flags);
@@ -171,7 +172,9 @@ restart:
if (wait_on_obf(0x6c, 1)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "olpc-ec: timeout waiting for"
" EC to provide data!\n");
- goto restart;
+ if (restarts++ < 10)
+ goto restart;
+ goto err;
}
outbuf[i] = inb(0x68);
printk(KERN_DEBUG "olpc-ec: received 0x%x\n",