Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] dell-wmi: Stop storing pointers to DMI tables

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On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 08:32:33AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> The dmi_walk function maps the DMI table, walks it, and unmaps it.
> This means that the dell_bios_hotkey_table that find_hk_type stores
> points to unmapped memory by the time it gets read.
> 
> I've been able to trigger crashes caused by the stale pointer a
> couple of times, but never on a stock kernel.
> 
> Fix it by generating the keymap in the dmi_walk callback instead of
> storing a pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Changes from v3: None

Did you have any Acked-by's thus far?

> 
> Changes from v2:
>  - dmi_walk failure is no longer fatal (Jean)
> 
> Changes from v1:
>  - Rename handle_dmi_table to handle_dmi_entry (Jean)
>  - Remove useless assignment to results->err (Jean)
> 
>  drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c
> index 368e193c2741..d6ae69e0a787 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c

...

> @@ -379,11 +396,12 @@ static const struct key_entry * __init dell_wmi_prepare_new_keymap(void)
>  
>  	keymap[hotkey_num].type = KE_END;
>  
> -	return keymap;
> +	results->keymap = keymap;

This appears to  change this function not to return anything, while the
declaration appears to still expect a "const struct key_entry *". Is my visual
diff parser broken?


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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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