[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 <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c b/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c
index 1fd8f21..4377e93 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/sclp.c
@@ -280,8 +280,11 @@
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);