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authorErik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com>2018-07-28 14:05:19 -0700
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2018-07-29 12:19:45 +0200
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ACPICA: AML Parser: ignore control method status in module-level code
Previous change in the AML parser code blindly set all non-successful dispatcher statuses to AE_OK. That approach is incorrect, though, because successful control method invocations from module-level return AE_CTRL_TRANSFER. Overwriting AE_OK to this status causes the AML parser to think that there was no return value from the control method invocation. Fixes: 92c0f4af386 (ACPICA: AML Parser: ignore dispatcher error status during table load) Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Signed-off-by: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpica/psloop.c19
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/psloop.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/psloop.c
index ee840be150b5..44f35ab3347d 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/psloop.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/psloop.c
@@ -709,15 +709,20 @@ acpi_status acpi_ps_parse_loop(struct acpi_walk_state *walk_state)
} else
if ((walk_state->
parse_flags & ACPI_PARSE_MODULE_LEVEL)
+ && status != AE_CTRL_TRANSFER
&& ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
/*
- * ACPI_PARSE_MODULE_LEVEL means that we are loading a table by
- * executing it as a control method. However, if we encounter
- * an error while loading the table, we need to keep trying to
- * load the table rather than aborting the table load. Set the
- * status to AE_OK to proceed with the table load. If we get a
- * failure at this point, it means that the dispatcher got an
- * error while processing Op (most likely an AML operand error.
+ * ACPI_PARSE_MODULE_LEVEL flag means that we are currently
+ * loading a table by executing it as a control method.
+ * However, if we encounter an error while loading the table,
+ * we need to keep trying to load the table rather than
+ * aborting the table load (setting the status to AE_OK
+ * continues the table load). If we get a failure at this
+ * point, it means that the dispatcher got an error while
+ * processing Op (most likely an AML operand error) or a
+ * control method was called from module level and the
+ * dispatcher returned AE_CTRL_TRANSFER. In the latter case,
+ * leave the status alone, there's nothing wrong with it.
*/
status = AE_OK;
}