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From: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com>
To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	oleksandr@natalenko.name, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ACPICA: AML Parser: ignore control method status in module-level code
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:05:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180728210519.20195-1-erik.schmauss@intel.com> (raw)

Previous change in the AML parser code blindly set all non-successful
dispatcher statuses to AE_OK. This approach is incorrect 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: 73c2a01c52b6 (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>
---
 drivers/acpi/acpica/psloop.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
 1 file 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;
 			}
-- 
2.17.1

             reply	other threads:[~2018-07-28 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-28 21:05 Erik Schmauss [this message]
2018-07-29 10:25 ` [PATCH] ACPICA: AML Parser: ignore control method status in module-level code Rafael J. Wysocki

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