[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] smbios: Fix -smbios type=0, release=... for big endian hosts

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Classic endianness bug due to careless dirty coding: assuming reading
a byte from an int variable gets the least significant byte.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
---
 hw/i386/smbios.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/i386/smbios.c b/hw/i386/smbios.c
index 322f0a0..68bd6d0 100644
--- a/hw/i386/smbios.c
+++ b/hw/i386/smbios.c
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ void smbios_add_field(int type, int offset, const void *data, size_t len)
 static void smbios_build_type_0_fields(const char *t)
 {
     char buf[1024];
+    unsigned char major, minor;
 
     if (get_param_value(buf, sizeof(buf), "vendor", t))
         smbios_add_field(0, offsetof(struct smbios_type_0, vendor_str),
@@ -139,8 +140,7 @@ static void smbios_build_type_0_fields(const char *t)
                                      bios_release_date_str),
                          buf, strlen(buf) + 1);
     if (get_param_value(buf, sizeof(buf), "release", t)) {
-        int major, minor;
-        sscanf(buf, "%d.%d", &major, &minor);
+        sscanf(buf, "%hhd.%hhd", &major, &minor);
         smbios_add_field(0, offsetof(struct smbios_type_0,
                                      system_bios_major_release),
                          &major, 1);
-- 
1.7.11.7