Re: [Xen-devel] Invalid length provided for SMBIOS data

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:13:37PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> I've checked in a simplification of the SMBIOS code as changeset 11686 in
> xen-unstable. Since this entirely removes the code that computes the table
> size 'ahead of time', it is very likely to fix this bug. We now *definitely*
> write the number of bytes that we actually emitted when constructing the
> tables. So unless the tables themselves are screwed, the length field must
> now surely be correct.

And indeed the one of the tables was screwed. There is a sneaky typo
in calculating how far to advance the pointer in the CPU table - its
doing  strlen(buf) instead of strlen(cpu_manufactuerer) which on my
particular system offset things by 6 bytes. Attaching the trivial
patch to fix it - applies on top of your patch in 11686.

  Signed-of-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Dan.
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