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Subjectasus-wmi fails to load on new ASUS laptop UX325JA
Hi,
I have the ASUS new laptop UX325JA and most of the media keys are
not working even with the latest kernel (5.7.0-rc5+). Looking into the
dmesg log, the ASUS WMI driver fails to load because of
[ 7.827241] asus-nb-wmi: probe of asus-nb-wmi failed with error -5.

Before this message, the following message repeat 5 times, please
check the full dmesg log here
https://gist.github.com/mschiu77/9a53cd8ff17029e949210dfb3ec1213f
[ 7.825975] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT, Field
[IIA3] at bit offset/length 96/32 exceeds size of target Buffer (96
bits) (20200326/dsopcode-203)
[ 7.825985] No Local Variables are initialized for Method [WMNB]
[ 7.826005] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.ATKD.WMNB due to
previous error (AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT) (20200326/psparse-531)

It fails the \_SB.ATKD.WMNB because the local variable IIA3
exceeds the buffer limit. The WMNB is the function to deal with all
ASUS WMI functions, such as ASUS_WMI_METHODID_INIT...etc. The related
code in DSDT is as follows. The full DSDT is here
https://gist.github.com/mschiu77/849c6cb89a8d8cadd015fa75465882dd

Method (WMNB, 3, Serialized)
{
P8XH (Zero, 0x11)
CreateDWordField (Arg2, Zero, IIA0)
CreateDWordField (Arg2, 0x04, IIA1)
CreateDWordField (Arg2, 0x08, IIA2)
CreateDWordField (Arg2, 0x0C, IIA3)
CreateDWordField (Arg2, 0x10, IIA4)
Local0 = (Arg1 & 0xFFFFFFFF)
If ((Local0 == 0x54494E49))

Just as the error messages indicated, the IIA3 is out of boundary
for the target Buffer. The limit 96bits (12 bytes) is determined by
the input acpi_buffer size, which refers to internally defined struct
bios_args, in asus_wmi_evaluate_method3. Because all ASUS WMI
evaluations will invoke asus_wmi_evaluate_method3 at last, so all
ASUS WMI functions fail to work. I can simply fix this by extending
the bios_args from 3 args to 5 u32 args as follows, but I don't think
it's generic enough and may have to change if there're more local
variables declared in ACPI method on the future ASUS machines. Any
suggestions for this?

--- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ struct bios_args {
u32 arg0;
u32 arg1;
u32 arg2; /* At least TUF Gaming series uses 3 dword input buffer. */
+ u32 arg3;
+ u32 arg4;
} __packed;


Chris
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