ACK: [PATCH 1/2] dmi: dmicheck: check reserved bits in Type 0

ivanhu ivan.hu at canonical.com
Wed May 10 08:18:28 UTC 2017



On 05/06/2017 01:08 PM, Alex Hung wrote:
> BIOS Characteristics Extension Byte 2 (offset 13)'s Bits [5:7]
> are reserved, and it is needed to check they are zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>
> ---
>  src/dmi/dmicheck/dmicheck.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/dmi/dmicheck/dmicheck.c b/src/dmi/dmicheck/dmicheck.c
> index 2665ea7..5b96f5b 100644
> --- a/src/dmi/dmicheck/dmicheck.c
> +++ b/src/dmi/dmicheck/dmicheck.c
> @@ -1001,6 +1001,15 @@ static void dmicheck_entry(fwts_framework *fw,
>  			dmi_str_check(fw, table, addr, "Vendor", hdr, 0x4);
>  			dmi_str_check(fw, table, addr, "BIOS Version", hdr, 0x5);
>  			dmi_str_check(fw, table, addr, "Release Date", hdr, 0x8);
> +			if (hdr->length < 0x18)
> +				break;
> +			if (hdr->data[0x13] & 0xe0)
> +				fwts_failed(fw, LOG_LEVEL_MEDIUM, DMI_RESERVED_VALUE_USED,
> +					"Reserved bits 0x%2.2" PRIx8 " was used and "
> +					"bits 5..7 sould be reserved while accessing entry '%s' @ "
> +					"0x%8.8" PRIx32 ", field '%s', offset 0x%2.2x",
> +					hdr->data[0x13], table, addr,
> +					"BIOS Characteristics Extension Byte 2", 0x13);
>  			break;
>
>  		case 1: /* 7.2 */
>


Acked-by: Ivan Hu <ivan.hu at canonical.com>



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