linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dell-laptop: Clear buffer before each SMBIOS call

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Message-ID: <20150706223937.GA111639@vmdeb7>
Date:	Mon, 6 Jul 2015 15:39:37 -0700
From:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dell-laptop: Clear buffer before each SMBIOS call

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 12:08:55PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Make sure that before initializing SMBIOS call input buffer does not
> contain any garbage (e.g. values from previous SMBIOS call). This fix
> problem with passing undefined/random parameters to SMBIOS functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>

Queued all 3 to fixes. Thanks Pali.

(I made a few minor grammatical fixes tot he commit messages, review the changes
if you like in the fixes branch)

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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