Re: [PATCH] wmi: use memcmp instead of strncmp to compare GUIDs
From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Date: Mon Dec 06 2010 - 17:13:59 EST
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:02:31PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Applied to -next, thanks.
>
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> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello, Matthew.
I consider this one a serious bug and with a trivial fix that should go
to Linus, for the next release candidate. I also consider it should go
to stable releases, and that's why I'm copying stable.
Any out-of-tree wmi driver written for systems with two or more GUIDs
containing any '\0' byte with a common prefix will fail to load because
of this bug. I've hit that, and that's how I found the bug.
Regards,
Cascardo.
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