[Skiboot] [PATCH v2 1/2] vpd: Sanitize VPD data

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Fri Jun 29 09:49:25 AEST 2018


Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> On 06/28/2018 09:32 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
>> Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>> On OpenPower system, VPD keyword size tells us the maximum size of the data.
>>> But they fill trailing end with space (0x20) instead of NULL. Also spec
>>> doesn't stop user to have space (0x20) within actual data.
>>>
>>> This patch discards trailing spaces before populating device tree.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi <ppaidipe at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> 
>> Thanks, series merged to master as of
>> 861350941f9a3fb76ebcae3e5a32b3cbec929d03
>> (with a make check fix)
>
> Thanks for fixing make check.
>
> I totally forgot to add stable # 6.0+ to this patchset. This should go to stable 
> branch.
>
> Can you please put this in stable branch as well?

Sure, I was going to ask you about that today :)

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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