ibmaem: prevent infinite probing loop on x3650 M2 systems

[linux-2.6] / drivers / hwmon / ibmaem.c

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c b/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c
index c9416e657487d52ac317bffe74c592742446b882..08c5179e6d846cdaacbe4207e29534d166e5dcc2 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
- * A hwmon driver for the IBM Active Energy Manager temperature/power sensors
- * and capping functionality.
+ * A hwmon driver for the IBM System Director Active Energy Manager (AEM)
+ * temperature/power/energy sensors and capping functionality.
  * Copyright (C) 2008 IBM
  *
  * Author: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
@@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ static int aem_find_aem2(struct aem_ipmi_data *data,
                return -ETIMEDOUT;
 
        if (data->rx_result || data->rx_msg_len != sizeof(*fi_resp) ||
-           memcmp(&fi_resp->id, &system_x_id, sizeof(system_x_id)))
+           memcmp(&fi_resp->id, &system_x_id, sizeof(system_x_id)) ||
+           fi_resp->num_instances <= instance_num)
                return -ENOENT;
 
        return 0;
@@ -1104,7 +1105,7 @@ static void __exit aem_exit(void)
 }
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IBM Active Energy Manager power/temp sensor driver");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IBM AEM power/temp/energy sensor driver");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
 module_init(aem_init);