[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "dmi_scan: fix missing check for _DMI_ signature in" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    dmi_scan: fix missing check for _DMI_ signature in

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From c46103e6a6df72ca25ef6b9ed62c467a0cb2cd60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 12:43:32 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] dmi_scan: fix missing check for _DMI_ signature in
 smbios_present()

commit a40e7cf8f06b4e322ba902e4e9f6a6b0c2daa907 upstream.

Commit 9f9c9cbb6057 ("drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: fetch dmi version
from SMBIOS if it exists") hoisted the check for "_DMI_" into
dmi_scan_machine(), which means that we don't bother to check for
"_DMI_" at offset 16 in an SMBIOS entry.  smbios_present() may also call
dmi_present() for an address where we found "_SM_", if it failed further
validation.

Check for "_DMI_" in smbios_present() before calling dmi_present().

[akpm at linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Reported-by: Tim McGrath <tmhikaru at gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tim Mcgrath <tmhikaru at gmail.com>
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index 982f1f5..4cd392d 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -442,7 +442,6 @@ static int __init dmi_present(const char __iomem *p)
 static int __init smbios_present(const char __iomem *p)
 {
 	u8 buf[32];
-	int offset = 0;

 	memcpy_fromio(buf, p, 32);
 	if ((buf[5] < 32) && dmi_checksum(buf, buf[5])) {
@@ -461,9 +460,9 @@ static int __init smbios_present(const char __iomem *p)
 			dmi_ver = 0x0206;
 			break;
 		}
-		offset = 16;
+		return memcmp(p + 16, "_DMI_", 5) || dmi_present(p + 16);
 	}
-	return dmi_present(buf + offset);
+	return 1;
 }

 void __init dmi_scan_machine(void)
--
1.8.1.2