linux-kernel - [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] Fix declaration of struct smbios_entry

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:38:44 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	"Mingarelli, Thomas" <Thomas.Mingarelli@...com>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] Fix declaration of struct smbios_entry_point in hpwdt

On my HP DL380 G5 system running a 64-bit kernel, loading the hpwdt
driver causes a crash because the driver attempts to ioremap an
invalid physical address.  This is because the driver has an incorrect
definition of the SMBIOS table entry point structure: the table
address is only a 32-bit quantity, and making it a u64 means that the
high-order 32 bits end up containing garbage.

Correcting the structure definition fixes the driver so that it loads
without any problems on my system.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
index a2e174b..cd1cc2d 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct smbios_entry_point {
 	u8 intermediate_anchor[5];
 	u8 intermediate_checksum;
 	u16 table_length;
-	u64 table_address;
+	u32 table_address;
 	u16 table_num_structs;
 	u8 bcd_revision;
 };
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/