Re: Bug in dmi_get_year (causing apic not getting enabled)

[Eric W. Biederman]

Matthias Pfaller <leo@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> dmi_get_year extracts the year with:
>
> 	simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 0);
>
> for biosdates in 2008 and 2009 this will return 0 because 8 and 9 are no valid
> octal digits. This will e.g. result in the apic not getting enabled.
> Changing this to
>
> 	simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 10);
>
> should fix the problem.

Only if there is a leading 0....


Eric
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