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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c index 8cd5db6691b2..a7072e7880ee 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dmi_kobj); * of and an antecedent to, SMBIOS, which stands for System * Management BIOS. See further: http://www.dmtf.org/standards */ -static const char dmi_empty_string[] = " "; +static const char dmi_empty_string[] = ""; static u32 dmi_ver __initdata; static u32 dmi_len; @@ -39,25 +39,21 @@ static int dmi_memdev_nr; static const char * __init dmi_string_nosave(const struct dmi_header *dm, u8 s) { const u8 *bp = ((u8 *) dm) + dm->length; + const u8 *nsp; if (s) { - s--; - while (s > 0 && *bp) { + while (--s > 0 && *bp) bp += strlen(bp) + 1; - s--; - } - - if (*bp != 0) { - size_t len = strlen(bp)+1; - size_t cmp_len = len > 8 ? 8 : len; - if (!memcmp(bp, dmi_empty_string, cmp_len)) - return dmi_empty_string; + /* Strings containing only spaces are considered empty */ + nsp = bp; + while (*nsp == ' ') + nsp++; + if (*nsp != '\0') return bp; - } } - return ""; + return dmi_empty_string; } static const char * __init dmi_string(const struct dmi_header *dm, u8 s) |