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SubjectRe: [STABLE PATCH .26 .27] ACPI: avoid empty file name in sysfs
Hi!

> upstream 4feba70a2c1a1a0c96909f657f48b2e11e682370
>
> Since commit bc45b1d39a925b56796bebf8a397a0491489d85c acpi tables are
> allowed to have an empty signature and /sys/firmware/acpi/tables uses the
> signature as filename. Applications using naive recursion through /sys
> loop forever. A possible solution would be: (replacing the zero length
> filename with the string "NULL")

What about using some string that is not a valid table name? Shorter
than 4 characters? AFAICT,
'NULL' table could be added to acpi in future...?

What if *two* tales have empty signature?
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