From 43fe105a5c91b2f00ea7f900ed307fe980410612 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:23:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] dmi: prevent linked list corruption Adding the same item to a given linked list more than once is guaranteed to break and corrupt the list. This is however what we do in dmi_scan since commit 79da4721117fcf188b4b007b775738a530f574da ("x86: fix DMI out of memory problems"). Given that there is absolutely no interest in saving empty OEM strings anyway, I propose the simple and efficient fix below: we discard the empty OEM strings altogether. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Acked-by: Parag Warudkar Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Matt Domsch Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed