From: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Pascal VITOUX <pascal@substantiel.fr>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC] dmi-scan: Use little-endian for the first 3 fields of the UUID.
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:54:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110119185411.49668f81@destiny.ordissimo> (raw)
From: Pascal VITOUX <pascal@substantiel.fr>
- Get SMBIOS version.
- Byte-swap the first 3 fields of the UUID (DMI type 1) as off SMBIOS
version 2.6.
This patch is an adaptation of Jean Delvare patches for dmidecode
rev1.100, rev1.01 and rev1.119.
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=log
It is intended to get the same uuid from dmidecode tool as from sysfs kernel
tree, more compliant with SMBIOS specification.
Therefore this patch will have the kernel return a different UUID if you
are using a recent BIOS implementing SMBIOS >= 2.6.
Signed-off-by: Pascal VITOUX <pascal@substantiel.fr>
Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
---
Hi,
I'd like to get some feedback on this patch. It doesn't modify the
API/ABI, but modifies the value returned by kernel on a given hardware,
so it could potentially break a (very) badly written app.
Disclaimer: Although I've applied my Signed-off-by, Pascal and I work for
the same company.
Regards,
Anisse
---
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index e28e41668..b6278a7 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static void dmi_table(u8 *buf, int len, int num,
static u32 dmi_base;
static u16 dmi_len;
static u16 dmi_num;
+static u16 dmi_ver;
static int __init dmi_walk_early(void (*decode)(const struct dmi_header *,
void *))
@@ -169,7 +170,18 @@ static void __init dmi_save_uuid(const struct dmi_header *dm, int slot, int inde
if (!s)
return;
- sprintf(s, "%pUB", d);
+ /*
+ * As off version 2.6 of the SMBIOS specification, the first 3
+ * fields of the UUID are supposed to be encoded on little-endian.
+ * The specification says that this is the defacto standard,
+ * however I've seen systems following RFC 4122 instead and use
+ * network byte order, so I am reluctant to apply the byte-swapping
+ * for older versions.
+ */
+ if (dmi_ver >= 0x0206)
+ sprintf(s, "%pUL", d);
+ else
+ sprintf(s, "%pUB", d);
dmi_ident[slot] = s;
}
@@ -400,9 +412,29 @@ static int __init dmi_present(const char __iomem *p)
dmi_base = (buf[11] << 24) | (buf[10] << 16) |
(buf[9] << 8) | buf[8];
+ /* SMBIOS version */
+ dmi_ver = (*(u8 *)(p - 0x10 + 0x06) << 8) +
+ *(u8 *)(p - 0x10 + 0x07);
+
+ /* Some BIOS report weird SMBIOS version, fix that up */
+ switch (dmi_ver) {
+ case 0x021F:
+ printk(KERN_INFO "SMBIOS version fixup (2.%d -> 2.%d).\n",
+ 31, 3);
+ dmi_ver = 0x0203;
+ break;
+ case 0x0233:
+ printk(KERN_INFO "SMBIOS version fixup (2.%d -> 2.%d).\n",
+ 51, 6);
+ dmi_ver = 0x0206;
+ break;
+ }
+ printk(KERN_INFO "SMBIOS version %d.%d.\n", dmi_ver >> 8,
+ dmi_ver & 0xFF);
+
/*
* DMI version 0.0 means that the real version is taken from
- * the SMBIOS version, which we don't know at this point.
+ * the SMBIOS version.
*/
if (buf[14] != 0)
printk(KERN_INFO "DMI %d.%d present.\n",
--
1.7.3.2
next reply other threads:[~2011-01-19 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-19 17:54 Anisse Astier [this message]
2011-01-19 19:01 ` [PATCH RFC] dmi-scan: Use little-endian for the first 3 fields of the UUID Bjorn Helgaas
2011-01-20 17:02 ` Anisse Astier
2011-01-19 20:39 ` Jean Delvare
2011-01-20 17:03 ` Anisse Astier
2011-01-25 12:18 ` Jean Delvare
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