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| author | Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> | 2013-03-08 09:23:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2013-03-12 00:45:05 +0100 |
| commit | 02d4fb36867c33f7e0cec8d6e6dad47ad712a497 (patch) | |
| tree | 34b79a95c67e897efa4ff0e7be93247a25918cd9 /drivers | |
| parent | 40411255c89eb382ed695933155a606c000d855e (diff) | |
ACPICA: Object repair: Allow 0-length packages for variable-length packages
For the predefined names that return fully variable-length
packages, allow a zero-length package with no warning, since it
is technically a legal construct (and BIOS writers use it.)
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/acpica/nsprepkg.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsprepkg.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsprepkg.c index a40155467d2..77cdd539de1 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsprepkg.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsprepkg.c @@ -112,9 +112,15 @@ acpi_ns_check_package(struct acpi_predefined_data *data, elements = return_object->package.elements; count = return_object->package.count; - /* The package must have at least one element, else invalid */ - + /* + * Most packages must have at least one element. The only exception + * is the variable-length package (ACPI_PTYPE1_VAR). + */ if (!count) { + if (package->ret_info.type == ACPI_PTYPE1_VAR) { + return (AE_OK); + } + ACPI_WARN_PREDEFINED((AE_INFO, data->pathname, data->node_flags, "Return Package has no elements (empty)")); |