Re: [PATCH v4] ACPI / PNP: compare the string length in the matching_id

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 3:19 AM Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Recently we met a touchscreen problem on some Thinkpad machines, the
> touchscreen driver (i2c-hid) is not loaded and the touchscreen can't
> work.
>
> An i2c ACPI device with the name WACF2200 is defined in the BIOS, with
> the current rule in matching_id(), this device will be regarded as
> a PNP device since there is WACFXXX in the acpi_pnp_device_ids[] and
> this PNP device is attached to the acpi device as the 1st
> physical_node, this will make the i2c bus match fail when i2c bus
> calls acpi_companion_match() to match the acpi_id_table in the i2c-hid
> driver.
>
> WACF2200 is an i2c device instead of a PNP device, after adding the
> string length comparing, the matching_id() will return false when
> matching WACF2200 and WACFXXX, and it is reasonable to compare the
> string length when matching two ids.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
> ---
> Sorry, the v3 patch has mis-spelling word in the commit header, so fix
> it and send the v4 patch.
>
>  drivers/acpi/acpi_pnp.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pnp.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_pnp.c
> index 4ed755a963aa..8f2dc176bb41 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pnp.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_pnp.c
> @@ -319,6 +319,9 @@ static bool matching_id(const char *idstr, const char *list_id)
>  {
>         int i;
>
> +       if (strlen(idstr) != strlen(list_id))
> +               return false;
> +
>         if (memcmp(idstr, list_id, 3))
>                 return false;
>
> --

Applied as 5.11-rc material, thanks!