Re: [patch v2] x86, efi: fix pointer math issue in handle_ramdisks()

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On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:06 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> "filename" is a efi_char16_t string so this check for reaching the end
> of the array doesn't work.  We need to cast the pointer to (u8 *) before
> doing the math.
> 
> This patch changes the "filename" to "filename_16" to avoid confusion in
> the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Rename "filename" to "filename_16"
>     Also changed cast from (char *) to (u8 *) because it's not a C
>     character string.  Ingo suggested (void *) but that's a GCCism
>     I think.

Looks good to me. Is someone going to pick this up?

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