linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] DMI: fix dmi_get

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Date:	Tue,  7 Jul 2009 22:36:30 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	leo@...co.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] DMI: fix dmi_get_year year parsing

Don't guess a year number base. Use 10 instead, since year may
be 2-digit starting with 0, so that we would end up in base equal
to 8.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Reported-by: Matthias Pfaller <leo@...co.de>
---
 drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index 6071078..8fe0f6e 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ int dmi_get_year(int field)
 		return 0;
 
 	s += 1;
-	year = simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 0);
+	year = simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 10);
 	if (year && year < 100) {	/* 2-digit year */
 		year += 1900;
 		if (year < 1996)	/* no dates < spec 1.0 */
-- 
1.6.3.2

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