From: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> Commit [2] broke original '\0' padding of OEM ID and OEM Table ID fields in headers of ACPI tables. While it doesn't have impact on default values since QEMU uses 6 and 8 characters long values respectively, it broke usecase where IDs are provided on QEMU CLI. It shouldn't affect guest (but may cause licensing verification issues in guest OS). One of the broken usecases is user supplied SLIC table with IDs shorter than max possible length, where [2] mangles IDs with extra spaces in RSDT and FADT tables whereas guest OS expects those to mirror the respective values of the used SLIC table.
Fix it by replacing whitespace padding with '\0' padding in accordance with [1] and expectations of guest OS 1) ACPI spec, v2.0b 17.2 AML Grammar Definition ... //OEM ID of up to 6 characters. If the OEM ID is //shorter than 6 characters, it can be terminated //with a NULL character. 2) Fixes: 602b458201 ("acpi: Permit OEM ID and OEM table ID fields to be changed") Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/707 Reported-by: Dmitry V. Orekhov <dima.orek...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> Cc: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org Message-Id: <20220112130332.1648664-4-imamm...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ani Sinha <a...@anisinha.ca> Tested-by: Dmitry V. Orekhov dima.orek...@gmail.com --- hw/acpi/aml-build.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c index bb2cad63b5..8966e16320 100644 --- a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c +++ b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c @@ -1724,9 +1724,9 @@ void acpi_table_begin(AcpiTable *desc, GArray *array) build_append_int_noprefix(array, 0, 4); /* Length */ build_append_int_noprefix(array, desc->rev, 1); /* Revision */ build_append_int_noprefix(array, 0, 1); /* Checksum */ - build_append_padded_str(array, desc->oem_id, 6, ' '); /* OEMID */ + build_append_padded_str(array, desc->oem_id, 6, '\0'); /* OEMID */ /* OEM Table ID */ - build_append_padded_str(array, desc->oem_table_id, 8, ' '); + build_append_padded_str(array, desc->oem_table_id, 8, '\0'); build_append_int_noprefix(array, 1, 4); /* OEM Revision */ g_array_append_vals(array, ACPI_BUILD_APPNAME8, 4); /* Creator ID */ build_append_int_noprefix(array, 1, 4); /* Creator Revision */ -- MST