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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: "Strasser, Kevin" <kevin.strasser@intel.com>
Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	"Koul, Vinod" <vinod.koul@intel.com>,
	"Lin, Mengdong" <mengdong.lin@intel.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Fang, Yang A" <yang.a.fang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: fix possible acpi enumeration panic
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:06:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141215170645.GH11764@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B6C3CD1F10FB47A5702881E0E230A74A0ECAE1@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com>


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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 09:55:38PM +0000, Strasser, Kevin wrote:

Please fix your mailer to word wrap comfortably under 80 colums so that
your mails are easily legible.

> > This changes the check from verifying if a codec_id is present to verifying if
> > the first character in the codec_id is non-NULL.  That doesn't seem obviously
> > safer and the tables of machines seem to be terminated by having an entry
> > with all fields set to zero (which is a common idiom in Linux) which would
> > now crash with this change.

> In this case mach->codec_id is non-NULL, even for the terminating element, because it
> is defined to be a fixed width. So we have to take a look at the first character to see if it
> has been initialized.

That's a really unusual and (as you've seen) error prone idiom - is it
not better to fix the struct to use the more common idiom?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-15 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-11  7:21 [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: fix possible acpi enumeration panic Kevin Strasser
2014-12-11 13:20 ` Mark Brown
2014-12-11 21:55   ` Strasser, Kevin
2014-12-15 17:06     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-12-15 23:22       ` [alsa-devel] " Kevin Strasser
2014-12-16  0:15 ` [PATCH v2] " Kevin Strasser
2014-12-16 11:52   ` Mark Brown

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