From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>
Cc: mst@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, brogers@suse.com,
gsomlo@gmail.com, kevin@koconnor.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] bios-tables-test: handle false-positive smbios signature matches
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 14:42:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432903362.19543.31.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1431953244-29304-1-git-send-email-somlo@cmu.edu>
On Mo, 2015-05-18 at 08:47 -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> It has been reported that sometimes the .rodata section of SeaBIOS,
> containing the constant string against which the SMBIOS signature
> ends up being compared, also falls within the guest f-segment. In
> that case, the test obviously fails, unless we continue searching
> for the *real* SMBIOS entry point.
>
> Rather than stopping at the first match for the SMBIOS signature
> ("_SM_") in the f-segment (0xF0000-0xFFFFF), continue scanning
> until either a valid entry point table is found, or the f-segment
> has been exhausted.
added to fw_cfg queue too.
cheers,
Gerd
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2015-05-18 12:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] bios-tables-test: handle false-positive smbios signature matches Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-05-26 17:36 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-05-29 12:42 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
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