On 08/17/2010 10:34 PM, Huang Ying wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:44 +0800, Jin Dongming wrote:
>> (2010/08/17 12:22), Huang Ying wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Yes. It looks good. And I am sorry I am unaware of Yinghai' patch.
>
> Maybe you can help push this fix in, it seems that Yinghai is busy on
> something else?
>
> Hi, Yinghai,
>
> Do you mind for Dongming to push this fix?
>
do you mean this one?
[PATCH] acpi: fix apei related table size checking
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c | 3 ++-
drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c
@@ -426,7 +426,8 @@ DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(error_inject_fop
static int einj_check_table(struct acpi_table_einj *einj_tab)
{
- if (einj_tab->header_length != sizeof(struct acpi_table_einj))
+ if (einj_tab->header_length !=
+ (sizeof(struct acpi_table_einj) - sizeof(einj_tab->header)))
return -EINVAL;
if (einj_tab->header.length < sizeof(struct acpi_table_einj))
return -EINVAL;
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c
@@ -750,7 +750,8 @@ __setup("erst_disable", setup_erst_disab
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)))
return -EINVAL;
if (erst_tab->header.length < sizeof(struct acpi_table_erst))
return -EINVAL;
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