2.6.36-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]> commit 8b14d7b22c61f17ccb869e0047d9df6dd9f50a9f upstream. While looking for the duplicates in /sys/class/wmi/, I couldn't find them. The code that looks for duplicates uses strncmp in a binary GUID, which may contain zero bytes. The right function is memcmp, which is also used in another section of wmi code. It was finding 49142400-C6A3-40FA-BADB-8A2652834100 as a duplicate of 39142400-C6A3-40FA-BADB-8A2652834100. Since the first byte is the fourth printed, they were found as equal by strncmp. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c @@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ static bool guid_already_parsed(const ch wblock = list_entry(p, struct wmi_block, list); gblock = &wblock->gblock; - if (strncmp(gblock->guid, guid_string, 16) == 0) + if (memcmp(gblock->guid, guid_string, 16) == 0) return true; } return false; _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
