On Mon, 06 Aug 2012, manoj.i...@canonical.com wrote:
> In the latest V-series bios DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION does not contain
> the string Lenovo or Thinkpad, but is set to the model number, this
> causes the thinkpad_acpi module to fail to load. Recognize laptop
> as Lenovo using DMI_BIOS_VENDOR instead, which is set to Lenovo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.i...@canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c |   13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c 
> b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> index e7f7328..17692c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -8658,11 +8658,16 @@ static int __must_check __init 
> get_thinkpad_model_data(
>       }
>  
>       s = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION);
> -     if (s && !(strnicmp(s, "ThinkPad", 8) && strnicmp(s, "Lenovo", 6))) {
> +     if (s && !(strnicmp(s, "ThinkPad", 8) && strnicmp(s, "Lenovo", 6)))
>               tp->model_str = kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL);
> -             if (!tp->model_str)
> -                     return -ENOMEM;
> -     }
> +     else {
> +             s = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR);
> +             if (s && !(strnicmp(s, "Lenovo", 6)))
> +                     tp->model_str = kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL);
> +     } 
> +
> +     if (!tp->model_str)
> +             return -ENOMEM;

This last unguarded if() can cause problems, s is allowed to be NULL.  Just
leave it where it was, and add a second one to the new "else" branch.

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