From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Fix crash on ASUS laptops
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:20:02 +0300
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Thanks, ACK
Alex.
Tero Roponen wrote:
> This patch fixes the crash I experienced in 2.6.29-rc2.
> Tested on ASUS M50vm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> index a2b82c9..5c2f5d3 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> @@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void)
>  		saved_ec = kmalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_ec), GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!saved_ec)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
> -		memcpy(&saved_ec, boot_ec, sizeof(saved_ec));
> +		memcpy(saved_ec, boot_ec, sizeof(*saved_ec));
>  	/* fall through */
>  	}
>  	/* This workaround is needed only on some broken machines,