Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: fixup after acpi_get_object_info() change

[Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>]

Oops, I meant to CC you guys, but forgot.  15b8dd53f5ffa is in
acpi-test, but not upstream yet.

On Monday 31 August 2009 04:20:00 pm Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Commit 15b8dd53f5ffa changed info->hardware_id from a static array to
> a pointer.  If hardware_id is non-NULL, it points to a NULL-terminated
> string, so we don't need to terminate it explicitly.  However, it may
> be NULL; in that case, we *can't* add a NULL terminator.
> 
> This causes a NULL pointer dereference oops for devices without _HID.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
> CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
> CC: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
> CC: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c
> index a9d926b..e7be66d 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c
> @@ -406,7 +406,6 @@ static acpi_status __init ibm_find_acpi_device(acpi_handle handle,
>  			__func__, status);
>  		return retval;
>  	}
> -	info->hardware_id.string[sizeof(info->hardware_id.length) - 1] = '\0';
>  
>  	if (info->current_status && (info->valid & ACPI_VALID_HID) &&
>  			(!strcmp(info->hardware_id.string, IBM_HARDWARE_ID1) ||
> 
>