Re: [PATCH] EDD: Check for correct EDD 3.0 length

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Tue May 15 2012 - 07:12:56 EST


Next time you resent an email say why you are doing it (wrong lkml
address in this case).

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:04:49PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> The device_path_info_length for EDD 3.0 is 36, not 44.
> Cf http://mbldr.sourceforge.net/specsedd30.pdf.
>
That's the wrong spec.

> This is a regression introduced by commit
> 0c61227094b3ddaca2f847ee287c4a2e3762b5a2
>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/edd.c b/drivers/firmware/edd.c
> index e229576..09a77d5 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/edd.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/edd.c
> @@ -545,8 +545,8 @@ edd_has_edd30(struct edd_device *edev)
> }
>
>
> - /* We support only T13 spec */
> - if (info->params.device_path_info_length != 44)
Here is the spec that code supports is spelled out, but you just replace
the comment with pointer to the spec that the code does not support.

> + /* EDD 3.0 specifies this to be 36 */
> + if (info->params.device_path_info_length != 36)
> return 0;
>
> for (i = 30; i < info->params.device_path_info_length + 30; i++)

--
Gleb.
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