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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: fix acpi_parse_entries_array() so it reports overflow correctly
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On 07/01/2016 03:40 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 11:21 PM, Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> wrote:
>> The function acpi_parse_entries_array() has a limiting parameter,
>> max_entries, which tells the function to stop looking at subtables
>> once that limit has been reached. Further, if the limit is reached,
>> it is reported. However, the logic is incorrect in that the loop
>> to examine all subtables will always stop when exactly max_entries
>> have been found, regardless of whether or not there are still subtables
>> to examine, and it will always report that zero subtables have been
>> ignored. This change allows the loop to continue to look at all
>> subtables and count all the ones of interest; if we have already
>> reached the number of max_entries, though, we will not invoke the
>> callback functions. If the max_entries limit has been exceeded,
>> report on that, as before, but more accurately, listing how many
>> subtables of interest there are in total (as was meant), and how
>> many entries each subtable type occupied.
>
> The problem appears to be that, if max_entries has been reached, it
> prints "ignored 0", although it should count all of the entries in
> that case too in principle. Do I think correctly?
>

Exactly. That's how I interpreted the comments. And it fit what I
needed it to do if the comments were correct.

Of course, it could be the code was correct and the comments were
wrong :). I preferred not to think that.

--
ciao,
al
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Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3@redhat.com
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