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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: "Michał Kępień" <kernel@kempniu.pl>
Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"Jean Delvare" <jdelvare@suse.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: Stop storing pointers to DMI tables
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:23:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160115142319.51f79994@endymion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160114095204.GA5473@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl>

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:52:04 +0100, Michał Kępień wrote:
> > > Hi Andy, I looked at this patch, but I think some people from -mm or DMI
> > > code should look at it as it is memory problem... We also has one in
> > > dell-laptop.ko (wrong API usage) and so -mm people could know it better.
> 
> > There are at least two platform drivers (dell-wmi and dell-laptop)
> > that don't play well with the current interface.  This patch is
> > intended to fix one of them.
> 
> Pali, Andy,
> 
> Could you point out the exact place where dell-laptop errs?  AFAICT, it
> only has one use of dmi_walk(), the callback there calls
> parse_da_table(), which does the right thing, i.e. krealloc()'ing memory
> and then memcpy()'ing table contents there...

FWIW I can't see any problem with dell-laptop either.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-15 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-03 14:52 [PATCH] dell-wmi: Stop storing pointers to DMI tables Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-11 21:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-12 14:25   ` Pali Rohár
2016-01-13 22:28     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-14  9:52       ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-15 13:23         ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2016-01-15 13:27       ` Jean Delvare
2016-01-15 16:27         ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-15 17:53           ` Jean Delvare
2016-01-15 20:00             ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-14 10:29 ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-18 15:44 ` Jean Delvare
2016-01-18 18:09   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-18 18:19     ` Andy Lutomirski

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