> 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.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This seems to work on my laptop. It applies to platform-drivers-x86/for-next.
>
> drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c
> index 57402c4c394e..52db2721d7e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c
> @@ -116,7 +116,10 @@ struct dell_bios_hotkey_table {
>
> };
>
> -static const struct dell_bios_hotkey_table *dell_bios_hotkey_table;
> +struct dell_dmi_results {
> + int err;
> + struct key_entry *keymap;
Nit: keymap can be a const struct key_entry *.
--
Best regards,
Michał Kępień
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