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

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Message-ID: <m1iqi3wxai.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:36:53 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Matthias Pfaller <leo@...co.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in dmi_get_year (causing apic not getting enabled)

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....

Eric
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