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* [PATCH] fix DMI onboard device discovery
@ 2006-03-23 13:29 Andrey Panin
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From: Andrey Panin @ 2006-03-23 13:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,

attached patch fixes invalid pointer arithmetic in DMI code to
make onboard device discovery working again. Tested and works.

Please consider applying.

Best regards.

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Andrey Panin		| Linux and UNIX system administrator
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Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>

 dmi_scan.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff linux-2.6.16.vanilla/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c linux-2.6.16/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c
--- linux-2.6.16.vanilla/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c	2006-03-22 21:07:32.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.16/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c	2006-03-22 21:11:32.775227680 +0300
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static void __init dmi_save_devices(stru
 	struct dmi_device *dev;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
-		char *d = ((char *) dm) + (i * 2);
+		char *d = ((char *) dm) + sizeof(struct dmi_header) + (i * 2);
 
 		/* Skip disabled device */
 		if ((*d & 0x80) == 0)

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