Re: [PATCH 1/4] [Patch-next] ACPI, APEI, ERST Fix the wrong checking of Serialization Header's length

[Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>]

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 03:26 +0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 08/17/2010 10:34 PM, Huang Ying wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:44 +0800, Jin Dongming wrote:
> >> (2010/08/17 12:22), Huang Ying wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:14 +0800, Jin Dongming wrote:
> >>>>> I don't think it is necessary to change the header definition, and
> >>>>> seri_header is not a good name for me.
> >>>> Why I added this structure here is that I don't want to do following checking.
> >>>> For example,
> >>>> 	if (header_length != 0x0c) {
> >>>> 		...
> >>>> 	}
> >>>
> >>> This can be:
> >>>
> >>>  static int erst_check_table(struct acpi_table_erst *erst_tab)
> >>>  {
> >>> -       if (erst_tab->header_length != sizeof(struct acpi_table_erst))
> >>> +       if (erst_tab->header_length !=
> >>> +           (sizeof(struct acpi_table_erst) - sizeof(erst_tab->header)))
> >>>
> >>> like Yinghai has been done.
> >>>
> >> Yes. It looks good. And I am sorry I am unaware of Yinghai' patch. 
> > 
> > Maybe you can help push this fix in, it seems that Yinghai is busy on
> > something else?
> > 
> > Hi, Yinghai,
> > 
> > Do you mind for Dongming to push this fix?
> > 
> do you mean this one?
> 
> [PATCH] acpi: fix apei related table size checking
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>