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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix EDD3.0 data verification.
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:30:36AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2011, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > Check for nonzero path in edd_has_edd30() has no sense. First, it looks
> > at the wrong memory. Device path starts at offset 30 of the info->params
> > structure which is at offset 8 from the beginning of info structure, but
> > code looks at info + 4 instead. This was correct when code was introduced,
> > but around v2.6.4 three more fields were added to edd_info structure
> > (commit 66b61a5c in history.git). Second, even if it will check correct
> > memory it will always succeed since at offset 30 (params->key) there will
> > be non-zero values otherwise previous check would fail.
>
> Hmm, would that be a reason for boot lockups on some systems ? I've
> seen that happen on Intel D875PBZ and Debian stable (2.6.26). We
> dropped EDD support then.
>
Unlikely. Edd module is not loaded by default and the code that the
patch changes works on in-memory data that was read from BIOS during
boot. It is theoretically possible that BIOS, that works according to
phoenix spec, will do something bad when int13_48 is called with buffer
bigger then 66 bytes, but my patch does not fix that.

--
Gleb.


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