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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:52:04 +0100 From: Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl> To: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: Stop storing pointers to DMI tables > > Hi Andy, I looked at this patch, but I think some people from -mm or DMI > > code should look at it as it is memory problem... We also has one in > > dell-laptop.ko (wrong API usage) and so -mm people could know it better. > There are at least two platform drivers (dell-wmi and dell-laptop) > that don't play well with the current interface. This patch is > intended to fix one of them. Pali, Andy, Could you point out the exact place where dell-laptop errs? AFAICT, it only has one use of dmi_walk(), the callback there calls parse_da_table(), which does the right thing, i.e. krealloc()'ing memory and then memcpy()'ing table contents there... -- Best regards, Michał Kępień
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