Merge tag 'asoc-v3.11-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v3.11

A few driver specific fixes here plus one core fix for a memory
corruption issue in DAPM initialisation which could lead to crashes.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index eb760a218da..232fa8fce26 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -419,6 +419,13 @@ static void __init dmi_format_ids(char *buf, size_t len)
 			    dmi_get_system_info(DMI_BIOS_DATE));
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check for DMI/SMBIOS headers in the system firmware image.  Any
+ * SMBIOS header must start 16 bytes before the DMI header, so take a
+ * 32 byte buffer and check for DMI at offset 16 and SMBIOS at offset
+ * 0.  If the DMI header is present, set dmi_ver accordingly (SMBIOS
+ * takes precedence) and return 0.  Otherwise return 1.
+ */
 static int __init dmi_present(const u8 *buf)
 {
 	int smbios_ver;
@@ -506,6 +513,13 @@ void __init dmi_scan_machine(void)
 		if (p == NULL)
 			goto error;
 
+		/*
+		 * Iterate over all possible DMI header addresses q.
+		 * Maintain the 32 bytes around q in buf.  On the
+		 * first iteration, substitute zero for the
+		 * out-of-range bytes so there is no chance of falsely
+		 * detecting an SMBIOS header.
+		 */
 		memset(buf, 0, 16);
 		for (q = p; q < p + 0x10000; q += 16) {
 			memcpy_fromio(buf + 16, q, 16);