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| author | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2008-02-23 15:23:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-23 17:12:15 -0800 |
| commit | 43fe105a5c91b2f00ea7f900ed307fe980410612 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f6b9a8a20cd76374e67d50917716f270e82cb19 /drivers/firmware | |
| parent | 79306a340c23e40c94ce16e504d172ae15b24187 (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.c | 8 |
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) { |