Re: [PATCH] firmware: dmi_scan: Fix ordering of product_uuid

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Le Thursday 16 April 2015 à 16:46 +0800, Zhenzhong Duan a écrit :
> On 2015/4/16 15:09, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Le Thursday 16 April 2015 à 14:22 +0800, Zhenzhong Duan a écrit :
> >> The basic idea is right, but you ignore the case dmi_walk_early may
> >> fail, though looks impossible when bootup.
> >>
> >> Better to add below for robust.
> >>
> >> @@ -521,6 +521,6 @@ static int __init dmi_present(const u8 *
> >>
> >>                return 0;
> >>            }
> >>        }
> >> +    dmi_ver = 0;
> >>        return 1;
> >>    }
> >>
> > What is the value of this? dmi_ver will never be accessed after this
> > point anyway, as far as I can see.
> Same as above, future commit may not realize you bring this faulty when 
> they want to use dmi_ver.

Why do you think this is "faulty"? The value in dmi_ver is correct
whether dmi_walk_early() succeeded or not. There's no rationale for
resetting dmi_ver on error and not dmi_num, dmi_len and dmi_base. Note
that dmi_smbios3_present() doesn't reset any of these either. These
values are all correct.

If other modules need to check whether DMI was successfully initialized,
they must check dmi_available rather than any of the variables above
(which are all static anyway.)

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support