Re: [patch v2] x86, efi: fix pointer math issue inhandle_ramdisks()

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Fri Mar 16 2012 - 11:20:20 EST


On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:06 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> "filename" is a efi_char16_t string so this check for reaching the end
> of the array doesn't work. We need to cast the pointer to (u8 *) before
> doing the math.
>
> This patch changes the "filename" to "filename_16" to avoid confusion in
> the future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Rename "filename" to "filename_16"
> Also changed cast from (char *) to (u8 *) because it's not a C
> character string. Ingo suggested (void *) but that's a GCCism
> I think.

Looks good to me. Is someone going to pick this up?

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