[RFC PATCH 7/7] acpi: fix bug in acpi_checksum() caused by garbage in checksum field

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



The whole table must sum to zero. We need to ignore garbage in the
checksum field (i.e. consider it zero) when checksumming. It is
legitimate to have garbage there, as the checksum makes sense only when
the table has been filled.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 hw/acpi.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/acpi.c b/hw/acpi.c
index f067f85..bb015f3 100644
--- a/hw/acpi.c
+++ b/hw/acpi.c
@@ -832,11 +832,16 @@ size_t acpi_tables_len, acpi_tables_prev_len;
 static int acpi_checksum(const uint8_t *data, int len)
 {
     int sum, i;
+    struct acpi_table_header *acpi_hdr;
 
     sum = 0;
     for(i = 0; i < len; i++)
         sum += data[i];
 
+    /* Ignore preexisting garbage in checksum. */
+    acpi_hdr = (struct acpi_table_header *) data;
+    sum -= acpi_hdr->checksum;
+
     return (-sum) & 0xff;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.4.4

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Index of Archives]     [KVM ARM]     [KVM ia64]     [KVM ppc]     [Virtualization Tools]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Questions]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux