[PATCH] dmi: Avoid unaligned memory access in save_mem_devices()

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Fri Nov 01 2013 - 16:59:57 EST


Firmware is not required to maintain alignment of SMBIOS entries,
so we should take care accessing fields within these structures.
Use "get_unaligned()" to avoid problems.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Ingo: belongs on top of the patches already in x86/mce branch
Found on ia64 (which grumbles about unaligned access)

drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index 59579a744d58..c7e81ff8f3ef 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <asm/dmi.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>

/*
* DMI stands for "Desktop Management Interface". It is part
@@ -347,7 +348,7 @@ static void __init save_mem_devices(const struct dmi_header *dm, void *v)
pr_warn(FW_BUG "Too many DIMM entries in SMBIOS table\n");
return;
}
- dmi_memdev[nr].handle = dm->handle;
+ dmi_memdev[nr].handle = get_unaligned(&dm->handle);
dmi_memdev[nr].device = dmi_string(dm, d[0x10]);
dmi_memdev[nr].bank = dmi_string(dm, d[0x11]);
nr++;
--
1.8.4.1

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