linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] hp-bioscfg: Overall fixes and code cleanup

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Message-ID: <CAOOmCE8xLxE9fSZNhPeYumRyzg9S-C9++8LH5jDq5vVwgFMdCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 1 Aug 2023 09:52:05 -0500
From:   Jorge Lopez <jorgealtxwork@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc:     hdegoede@...hat.com, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, thomas@...ch.de,
        ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] hp-bioscfg: Overall fixes and code cleanup

I will submit a new patch replacing 'value_len' for 'size' in line 267
as indicated.
'value_len' is utilized earlier in the code so we cannot remove it
completely from the function.


On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 8:35 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> These are fine.  We still need to do something like this.  Also we could
> just get rid of value_len completely.  Nothing uses it.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/order-list-attributes.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/order-list-attributes.c
> index cffc1c9ba3e77..6ba0e49e787ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/order-list-attributes.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/order-list-attributes.c
> @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ static int hp_populate_ordered_list_elements_from_package(union acpi_object *ord
>                          * Ordered list data is stored in hex and comma separated format
>                          * Convert the data and split it to show each element
>                          */
> -                       ret = hp_convert_hexstr_to_str(str_value, value_len, &tmpstr, &tmp_len);
> +                       ret = hp_convert_hexstr_to_str(str_value, size, &tmpstr, &tmp_len);
>                         if (ret)
>                                 goto exit_list;
>