Re: [PATCH 1/4] [Patch-next] ACPI, APEI, ERST Fix the wrongchecking of Serialization Header's length

[Huang Ying]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:14 +0800, Jin Dongming wrote:
> > I don't think it is necessary to change the header definition, and
> > seri_header is not a good name for me.
> Why I added this structure here is that I don't want to do following checking.
> For example,
> 	if (header_length != 0x0c) {
> 		...
> 	}

This can be:

 static int erst_check_table(struct acpi_table_erst *erst_tab)
 {
-       if (erst_tab->header_length != sizeof(struct acpi_table_erst))
+       if (erst_tab->header_length !=
+           (sizeof(struct acpi_table_erst) - sizeof(erst_tab->header)))

like Yinghai has been done.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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