[PATCH] fix DMI onboard device discovery

From: Andrey Panin
Date: Thu Mar 23 2006 - 08:26:16 EST


Hello,

attached patch fixes invalid pointer arithmetic in DMI code to
make onboard device discovery working again. Tested and works.

Please consider applying.

Best regards.

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Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@xxxxxxxxx>

dmi_scan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff linux-2.6.16.vanilla/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c linux-2.6.16/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c
--- linux-2.6.16.vanilla/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c 2006-03-22 21:07:32.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.16/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c 2006-03-22 21:11:32.775227680 +0300
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static void __init dmi_save_devices(stru
struct dmi_device *dev;

for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
- char *d = ((char *) dm) + (i * 2);
+ char *d = ((char *) dm) + sizeof(struct dmi_header) + (i * 2);

/* Skip disabled device */
if ((*d & 0x80) == 0)

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