* [PATCH] Terminate i386 local APIC DMI exception table
@ 2004-09-27 11:48 Andi Kleen
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From: Andi Kleen @ 2004-09-27 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: torvalds; +Cc: linux-kernel, akpm
[sending directly to Linus because Andrew said he is away]
The i386 local APIC DMI exception table was not 0 terminated. The dmi
parser would walk into random .data space. Found during code review,
not known to cause problems, but should be still fixed. I checked all
other DMI tables and they seemed to be ok.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
diff -u linux/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c-o linux/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c
--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c-o 2004-09-27 12:36:35.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c 2004-09-27 13:44:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -1233,7 +1233,8 @@
static struct dmi_system_id __initdata apic_dmi_table[] = {
{ need_local_apic, "Intel C440GX+", {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR,"Intel"),
- DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME,"C440GX+") } }
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME,"C440GX+") } },
+ {},
};
/*
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