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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 02/17] platform/x86: dell-wmi: increase severity of some failures
On Tuesday 17 October 2017 13:21:46 Mario Limonciello wrote:
> There is a lot of error checking in place for the format of the WMI
> descriptor buffer, but some of the potentially raised issues should
> be considered critical failures.
>
> If the buffer size or header don't match, this is a good indication
> that the buffer format changed in a way that the rest of the data
> should not be relied upon.
>
> For the remaining data set vectors, continue to notate a warning
> in undefined results, but as those are fields that the descriptor
> intended to refer to other applications, don't fail if they're new
> values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
> Reviewed-by: Edward O'Callaghan <quasisec@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>

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Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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