releases/2.6.27.22/acpi-ec-add-some-basic-check-for-ecdt-data.patch

From c5279dee26c0e8d7c4200993bfc4b540d2469598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:11:53 -0500
Subject: ACPI: EC: Add some basic check for ECDT data

From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>

commit c5279dee26c0e8d7c4200993bfc4b540d2469598 upstream.

One more ASUS comes with empty ECDT, add a guard for it...

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11880

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/acpi/ec.c |   43 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
@@ -968,7 +968,6 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id ec_de
 
 int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void)
 {
-	int ret;
 	acpi_status status;
 	struct acpi_table_ecdt *ecdt_ptr;
 
@@ -996,30 +995,32 @@ int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void)
 		boot_ec->gpe = ecdt_ptr->gpe;
 		boot_ec->handle = ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT;
 		acpi_get_handle(ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT, ecdt_ptr->id, &boot_ec->handle);
-	} else {
-		/* This workaround is needed only on some broken machines,
-		 * which require early EC, but fail to provide ECDT */
-		acpi_handle x;
-		printk(KERN_DEBUG PREFIX "Look up EC in DSDT\n");
-		status = acpi_get_devices(ec_device_ids[0].id, ec_parse_device,
-						boot_ec, NULL);
-		/* Check that acpi_get_devices actually find something */
-		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) || !boot_ec->handle)
-			goto error;
-		/* We really need to limit this workaround, the only ASUS,
-		 * which needs it, has fake EC._INI method, so use it as flag.
-		 * Keep boot_ec struct as it will be needed soon.
-		 */
-		if (ACPI_FAILURE(acpi_get_handle(boot_ec->handle, "_INI", &x)))
-			return -ENODEV;
+		/* Add some basic check against completely broken table */
+		if (boot_ec->data_addr != boot_ec->command_addr)
+			goto install;
+	/* fall through */
 	}
-
-	ret = ec_install_handlers(boot_ec);
-	if (!ret) {
+	/* This workaround is needed only on some broken machines,
+	 * which require early EC, but fail to provide ECDT */
+	acpi_handle x;
+	printk(KERN_DEBUG PREFIX "Look up EC in DSDT\n");
+	status = acpi_get_devices(ec_device_ids[0].id, ec_parse_device,
+					boot_ec, NULL);
+	/* Check that acpi_get_devices actually find something */
+	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) || !boot_ec->handle)
+		goto error;
+	/* We really need to limit this workaround, the only ASUS,
+	 * which needs it, has fake EC._INI method, so use it as flag.
+	 * Keep boot_ec struct as it will be needed soon.
+	 */
+	if (ACPI_FAILURE(acpi_get_handle(boot_ec->handle, "_INI", &x)))
+		return -ENODEV;
+install:
+	if (!ec_install_handlers(boot_ec)) {
 		first_ec = boot_ec;
 		return 0;
 	}
-      error:
+error:
 	kfree(boot_ec);
 	boot_ec = NULL;
 	return -ENODEV;