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Message-Id: <7ce68d0632fd012ef174a880123a2633d68ac126.1508515469.git.mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:40:22 -0500
From:   Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@...l.com>
To:     dvhart@...radead.org, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, quasisec@...gle.com,
        pali.rohar@...il.com, rjw@...ysocki.net, mjg59@...gle.com,
        hch@....de, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
        Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@...l.com>
Subject: [PATCH v11 07/15] platform/x86: dell-smbios: only run if proper oem string is detected

The proper way to indicate that a system is a 'supported' Dell System
is by the presence of this string in OEM strings.

Allowing the driver to load on non-Dell systems will have undefined
results.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@...l.com>
Reviewed-by: Edward O'Callaghan <quasisec@...gle.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.c
index e9b1ca07c872..7e779278d054 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.c
@@ -172,8 +172,15 @@ static void __init find_tokens(const struct dmi_header *dm, void *dummy)
 
 static int __init dell_smbios_init(void)
 {
+	const struct dmi_device *valid;
 	int ret;
 
+	valid = dmi_find_device(DMI_DEV_TYPE_OEM_STRING, "Dell System", NULL);
+	if (!valid) {
+		pr_err("Unable to run on non-Dell system\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
 	dmi_walk(find_tokens, NULL);
 
 	if (!da_tokens)  {
-- 
2.14.1

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