[patch] x86, efi: fix pointer math issue in handle_ramdisks()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Mar 02 2012 - 14:02:45 EST


"filename" is a efi_char16_t string so this check for reaching the end
of the array doesn't work. We need to cast it to char pointer before
doing the math.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
index fec216f..cf4cdb7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ static efi_status_t handle_ramdisks(efi_loaded_image_t *image,
str++;

while (*str && *str != ' ' && *str != '\n') {
- if (p >= filename + sizeof(filename))
+ if ((char *)p >= (char *)filename + sizeof(filename))
break;

*p++ = *str++;
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