Re: [PATCH 1/4] [Patch-next] ACPI, APEI, ERST Fix the wrongchecking of Serialization Header's length

[Huang Ying]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:44 +0800, Jin Dongming wrote:
> (2010/08/17 12:22), Huang Ying wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:14 +0800, Jin Dongming wrote:
> >>> I don't think it is necessary to change the header definition, and
> >>> seri_header is not a good name for me.
> >> Why I added this structure here is that I don't want to do following checking.
> >> For example,
> >> 	if (header_length != 0x0c) {
> >> 		...
> >> 	}
> > 
> > This can be:
> > 
> >  static int erst_check_table(struct acpi_table_erst *erst_tab)
> >  {
> > -       if (erst_tab->header_length != sizeof(struct acpi_table_erst))
> > +       if (erst_tab->header_length !=
> > +           (sizeof(struct acpi_table_erst) - sizeof(erst_tab->header)))
> > 
> > like Yinghai has been done.
> > 
> Yes. It looks good. And I am sorry I am unaware of Yinghai' patch. 

Maybe you can help push this fix in, it seems that Yinghai is busy on
something else?

Hi, Yinghai,

Do you mind for Dongming to push this fix?

Best REgards,
Huang Ying


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