Re: PnPBIOS: Unknown tag '0x82'

[Adam Belay]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:50:04AM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > > PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
> > > PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f2480
> > > PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x1d2a, dseg 0xf0000
> > > pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
> > > pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0xcf8-0xcff could not be reserved
> > > PnPBIOS: Unknown tag '0x82', length '18': 82 12 00 49 6e 74 65 6c 20 46 69 72 6d 77 61 72 65 20 .
> > > pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
> > > PnPBIOS: 20 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 20 recorded by driver
> >
> > In this case it should be harmless.  Typically when one tag is
> > corrupted (or incorrectly interpreted) it will also complain
> > about the following tag because of size checks.  Where did the
> > unknown tag occur?  Perhaps in pnpbios_parse_resource_option_data?
> 
> It's in pnpbios_parse_compatible_ids.

Could you please try this patch.

Thanks,
Adam

--- a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/rsparser.c	2004-03-11 02:55:25.000000000 +0000
+++ b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/rsparser.c	2004-03-24 16:24:17.000000000 +0000
@@ -505,6 +505,11 @@
 
 		switch (tag) {
 
+		case LARGE_TAG_ANSISTR:
+			strncpy(dev->name, p + 3, len >= PNP_NAME_LEN ? PNP_NAME_LEN - 2 : len);
+			dev->name[len >= PNP_NAME_LEN ? PNP_NAME_LEN - 1 : len] = '\0';
+			break;
+
 		case SMALL_TAG_COMPATDEVID: /* compatible ID */
 			if (len != 4)
 				goto len_err;
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