Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/dmi_scan: only honor end-of-table for 64-bit tables

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/08/15 11:58, Jan Beulich wrote:
> From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
>
> A 32-bit entry point to a DMI table says how many structures the table
> contains. The SMBIOS specification explicitly says that end-of-table
> markers should be ignored if they are not actually at the end of the
> DMI table. So only honor the end-of-table marker for tables accessed
> through 64-bit entry points, as they do not specify a structure count.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> [Linux commit 17cd5bd5391e6e7b363d66335e1bc6760ae969b9]
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

/sigh firmware

Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

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