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authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2008-02-23 15:23:55 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-23 17:12:15 -0800
commit43fe105a5c91b2f00ea7f900ed307fe980410612 (patch)
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parent79306a340c23e40c94ce16e504d172ae15b24187 (diff)
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dmi: prevent linked list corruption
Adding the same item to a given linked list more than once is guaranteed to break and corrupt the list. This is however what we do in dmi_scan since commit 79da4721117fcf188b4b007b775738a530f574da ("x86: fix DMI out of memory problems"). Given that there is absolutely no interest in saving empty OEM strings anyway, I propose the simple and efficient fix below: we discard the empty OEM strings altogether. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c8
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index de3027521bfa..4072449ad1cd 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -217,10 +217,6 @@ static void __init dmi_save_devices(const struct dmi_header *dm)
}
}
-static struct dmi_device empty_oem_string_dev = {
- .name = dmi_empty_string,
-};
-
static void __init dmi_save_oem_strings_devices(const struct dmi_header *dm)
{
int i, count = *(u8 *)(dm + 1);
@@ -229,10 +225,8 @@ static void __init dmi_save_oem_strings_devices(const struct dmi_header *dm)
for (i = 1; i <= count; i++) {
char *devname = dmi_string(dm, i);
- if (!strcmp(devname, dmi_empty_string)) {
- list_add(&empty_oem_string_dev.list, &dmi_devices);
+ if (devname == dmi_empty_string)
continue;
- }
dev = dmi_alloc(sizeof(*dev));
if (!dev) {