[PATCH v3 0/5] ACPI: Provide better MADT subtable sanity checks

Al Stone ahs3 at redhat.com
Wed Sep 16 09:27:57 PDT 2015


On 09/16/2015 10:24 AM, Al Stone wrote:
> On 09/15/2015 08:44 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 03:13:12 PM Al Stone wrote:
>>> On 09/09/2015 03:09 PM, Al Stone wrote:
>>>> Currently, the BAD_MADT_ENTRY macro is used to do a very simple sanity
>>>> check on the various subtables that are defined for the MADT.  The check
>>>> compares the size of the subtable data structure as defined by ACPICA to
>>>> the length entry in the subtable.  If they are not the same, the assumption
>>>> is that the subtable is incorrect.
>>>>

[snip...]

>> I'm going to apply this series if people have no problems with it.  I do think
>> it is slightly overkill, but then as long as it works ...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rafael
>>

Would you prefer I send out the updated version with Sudeep's fix to apply
instead of this version?  Or have you picked that up already?  Easily updated
and sent out, if it'll make your life simpler....

-- 
ciao,
al
-----------------------------------
Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3 at redhat.com
-----------------------------------



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list