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SubjectRe: [PATCH] acpi: Incorrect ACPI tables walk in acpi_tables_sysfs_init
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On Thursday, November 21, 2013 11:20:27 AM Jeremy Compostella wrote:
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:20:23 +0100
> Message-ID: <87d2lu83a0.fsf@tldlab276.tl.intel.com>
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> Hi,
>
> When executing on a ACPI Hardware reduced hardware, all the ACPI tables are not
> exposed in sysfs due to the fact that FACS is silently ignored by the kernel in
> ACPI hardware reduced and, moreover, the acpi_tables_sysfs_init ACPI table walk
> is buggy and stop too soon.
>
> The acpi_tables_sysfs_init function should to rely on the appropriate
> acpi_status return values to decide or not to stop the iteration. This way,
> when running on a ACPI Reduced Harware environment where the FACS table is
> silently ignored by the kernel or some ACPI table are not correctly memory
> mapped or have a bad checksum it would not stop the iteration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@intel.com>

Since this is a fix, I've modified the subject and changelog slightly and
queued up the patch for the next ACPI pull request (next week).

Thanks!

--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.


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