[PATCH 1/2] dmi: dmicheck: check reserved bits in Type 0

Alex Hung alex.hung at canonical.com
Sat May 6 05:08:58 UTC 2017


BIOS Characteristics Extension Byte 2 (offset 13)'s Bits [5:7]
are reserved, and it is needed to check they are zero.

Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>
---
 src/dmi/dmicheck/dmicheck.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/dmi/dmicheck/dmicheck.c b/src/dmi/dmicheck/dmicheck.c
index 2665ea7..5b96f5b 100644
--- a/src/dmi/dmicheck/dmicheck.c
+++ b/src/dmi/dmicheck/dmicheck.c
@@ -1001,6 +1001,15 @@ static void dmicheck_entry(fwts_framework *fw,
 			dmi_str_check(fw, table, addr, "Vendor", hdr, 0x4);
 			dmi_str_check(fw, table, addr, "BIOS Version", hdr, 0x5);
 			dmi_str_check(fw, table, addr, "Release Date", hdr, 0x8);
+			if (hdr->length < 0x18)
+				break;
+			if (hdr->data[0x13] & 0xe0)
+				fwts_failed(fw, LOG_LEVEL_MEDIUM, DMI_RESERVED_VALUE_USED,
+					"Reserved bits 0x%2.2" PRIx8 " was used and "
+					"bits 5..7 sould be reserved while accessing entry '%s' @ "
+					"0x%8.8" PRIx32 ", field '%s', offset 0x%2.2x",
+					hdr->data[0x13], table, addr,
+					"BIOS Characteristics Extension Byte 2", 0x13);
 			break;
 
 		case 1: /* 7.2 */
-- 
2.7.4




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