Re: [Patch 2/3] firmware: dmi_scan: fix dmi_len type

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 11 February 2015 at 18:10, Ivan Khoronzhuk
<ivan.khoronzhuk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 02/11/2015 11:53 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>
>> On 11 February 2015 at 17:46, Ivan Khoronzhuk
>> <ivan.khoronzhuk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> According to SMBIOSv3 specification the length of DMI table can be
>>> up to 32bits wide. So use appropriate type to avoid overflow.
>>>
>>> It's obvious that dmi_num theoretically can be more than u16 also,
>>> so it's can be changed to u32 or at least it's better to use int
>>> instead of u16, but on that moment I cannot imagine dmi structure
>>> count more than 65535 and it can require changing type of vars that
>>> work with it. So I didn't correct it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This should get a cc stable as well.
>>
>
> Pay attention that this patch has to be applied with patch 1/3.

Good point. Actually, I don't really see the need for patch #1, even
if I agree that it would have been better to write it like you have in
the first place.
But leaving the dmi_len as u16 is clearly a bug on my part, so that
should be fixed.

@Matt: any thoughts?
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/