From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/dmi_scan: only honor end-of-table for 64-bit tables
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:26:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55CC7EEC.7060206@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55CC9485020000780009AAA4@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On 13/08/15 11:58, Jan Beulich wrote:
> From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
>
> A 32-bit entry point to a DMI table says how many structures the table
> contains. The SMBIOS specification explicitly says that end-of-table
> markers should be ignored if they are not actually at the end of the
> DMI table. So only honor the end-of-table marker for tables accessed
> through 64-bit entry points, as they do not specify a structure count.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
> [Linux commit 17cd5bd5391e6e7b363d66335e1bc6760ae969b9]
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
/sigh firmware
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-13 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-13 10:58 [PATCH] x86/dmi_scan: only honor end-of-table for 64-bit tables Jan Beulich
2015-08-13 11:26 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2015-08-13 11:29 ` Wei Liu
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