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authorBob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>2008-04-10 19:06:43 +0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-04-22 14:29:31 -0400
commit24a3157a90ddf851a0880c0b8963bc43481cd85b (patch)
tree0a57648310f97b5907a09cf04412d68b79d908e4 /drivers/acpi
parenta3df4dadd446c0d7195f2bbe86dd5174426d8090 (diff)
downloadlinux-24a3157a90ddf851a0880c0b8963bc43481cd85b.tar.gz
ACPICA: Fix for possible error when packages/buffers are passed to methods externally
Fixed a problem where buffer and package objects passed as
arguments to a control method via the external AcpiEvaluateObject
interface could cause an AE_AML_INTERNAL exception depending on the
order and type of operators executed by the target control method.

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/utilities/utcopy.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utcopy.c b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utcopy.c
index 4c4021d82f99..4e9a62b34aef 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utcopy.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utcopy.c
@@ -511,6 +511,10 @@ acpi_ut_copy_esimple_to_isimple(union acpi_object *external_object,
 			    external_object->buffer.length);
 
 		internal_object->buffer.length = external_object->buffer.length;
+
+		/* Mark buffer data valid */
+
+		internal_object->buffer.flags |= AOPOBJ_DATA_VALID;
 		break;
 
 	case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER:
@@ -586,6 +590,10 @@ acpi_ut_copy_epackage_to_ipackage(union acpi_object *external_object,
 		}
 	}
 
+	/* Mark package data valid */
+
+	package_object->package.flags |= AOPOBJ_DATA_VALID;
+
 	*internal_object = package_object;
 	return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
 }