[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] smbios: catch zero-length strings
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Jan 21 20:52:42 CET 2014
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:24:02PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> qemu may pass us zero-length strings for smbios fields, when starting
> qemu this way ...
>
> qemu -smbios type=1,version=,serial=test
>
> ... for example.
>
> Today we don't specifically handle them and simply append them to the
> string list. Therefore we get two string-terminating zeros in a row.
> Result is that we by accident create a end-of-entry marker in the middle
> of the entry.
>
> Fix this by handling zero-length strings like non-present strings.
Looks okay to me.
I wish we could get all of the smbios stuff moved to qemu.
-Kevin
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