linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Use Dell WMI descriptor check

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Date:   Sun, 1 Oct 2017 11:43:56 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Cc:     Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@...l.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, quasisec@...gle.com,
        Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Use Dell WMI
 descriptor check

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:02:15PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> The Dell WMI descriptor check is used as an indication that WMI
>> calls are safe to run both when used with the notification
>> ASL/GUID pair as well as the SMBIOS calling ASL/GUID pair.
>>
>> As some code in dell-wmi-smbios is already a prerequisite for
>> dell-wmi, move the code for performing the descriptor check into
>> dell-wmi-smbios and let both drivers use it from there.

>> +     if (desc_buffer[0] != 0x4C4C4544 && desc_buffer[1] != 0x494D5720)
>
> This seems like it should be an || ?
>
> (I see this is fixed in a later patch)

Interesting, I proposed to use strncmp(), but it's gone again. Perhaps
I missed what is downside of that.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko