linux-kernel - Re: Bug in dmi_get_year (causing apic not getting enabled)

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Date:	Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:47:26 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Matthias Pfaller <leo@...co.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in dmi_get_year (causing apic not getting enabled)

On 07/08/2009 07:36 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Matthias Pfaller <leo@...co.de> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> dmi_get_year extracts the year with:
>>
>> 	simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 0);
>>
>> for biosdates in 2008 and 2009 this will return 0 because 8 and 9 are no valid
>> octal digits. This will e.g. result in the apic not getting enabled.
>> Changing this to
>>
>> 	simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 10);
>>
>> should fix the problem.
> 
> Only if there is a leading 0....

Yes, 4-digit year is required as of smbios 2.3 (1998). There are broken
BIOSes out there though. So there is no need to guess base if we know
it. I sent a fix for this yesterday. Any objections?
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