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authorBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>2006-02-18 00:59:50 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-18 01:09:22 +0300
commit35b73ceb9a7d10c81bd9e79e8485f7079ef2b40e (patch)
treec09177d88d8cbef4c753744c72053a0bd8f35fef /drivers
parent636f13c174dd7c84a437d3c3e8fa66f03f7fda63 (diff)
downloadlinux-35b73ceb9a7d10c81bd9e79e8485f7079ef2b40e.tar.xz
[PATCH] ACPI: fix vendor resource length computation
acpi_rs_get_list_length() needs to account for all the vendor-defined data bytes. Failing to include these causes buffers to be sized too small, which causes slab corruption when we later convert AML to resources and run off the end of the buffer. This causes slab corruption on machines that use ACPI vendor-defined resources. All HP ia64 machines do, and I'm told that some NEC machines may as well. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/resources/rscalc.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/resources/rscalc.c b/drivers/acpi/resources/rscalc.c
index 7d6481d9fbec..4038dbfa63a0 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/resources/rscalc.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/resources/rscalc.c
@@ -391,8 +391,7 @@ acpi_rs_get_list_length(u8 * aml_buffer,
* Ensure a 32-bit boundary for the structure
*/
extra_struct_bytes =
- ACPI_ROUND_UP_to_32_bITS(resource_length) -
- resource_length;
+ ACPI_ROUND_UP_to_32_bITS(resource_length);
break;
case ACPI_RESOURCE_NAME_END_TAG:
@@ -408,8 +407,7 @@ acpi_rs_get_list_length(u8 * aml_buffer,
* Add vendor data and ensure a 32-bit boundary for the structure
*/
extra_struct_bytes =
- ACPI_ROUND_UP_to_32_bITS(resource_length) -
- resource_length;
+ ACPI_ROUND_UP_to_32_bITS(resource_length);
break;
case ACPI_RESOURCE_NAME_ADDRESS32: