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[v2,5/6] smbios: Fix -smbios type=0, release=... for big endian hosts

Message ID 1370610036-10577-6-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
State New
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Markus Armbruster June 7, 2013, 1 p.m. UTC 
Classic endianness bug due to careless dirty coding: assuming reading
a byte from an int variable gets the least significant byte.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
---
 hw/i386/smbios.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/hw/i386/smbios.c b/hw/i386/smbios.c
index 322f0a0..6431dd4 100644
--- a/hw/i386/smbios.c
+++ b/hw/i386/smbios.c
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@  void smbios_add_field(int type, int offset, const void *data, size_t len)
 static void smbios_build_type_0_fields(const char *t)
 {
     char buf[1024];
+    unsigned char major, minor;
 
     if (get_param_value(buf, sizeof(buf), "vendor", t))
         smbios_add_field(0, offsetof(struct smbios_type_0, vendor_str),
@@ -139,8 +140,7 @@  static void smbios_build_type_0_fields(const char *t)
                                      bios_release_date_str),
                          buf, strlen(buf) + 1);
     if (get_param_value(buf, sizeof(buf), "release", t)) {
-        int major, minor;
-        sscanf(buf, "%d.%d", &major, &minor);
+        sscanf(buf, "%hhu.%hhu", &major, &minor);
         smbios_add_field(0, offsetof(struct smbios_type_0,
                                      system_bios_major_release),
                          &major, 1);