ACPI EC: Fix regression due to use of uninitialized variable
authorAlexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:26:40 +0000 (14:26 -0500)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:45:00 +0000 (14:45 -0500)
breakage introduced by following patch
commit 27663c5855b10af9ec67bc7dfba001426ba21222
Author: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 10 02:22:59 2008 -0400

acpi_evaluate_integer() does not clear passed variable if
there is an error at evaluation.
So if we ignore error, we must supply initialized variable.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11917

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/ec.c

index ef42316f89f52452f69192d89894ca9ba64f46ee..523ac5b229a580e5c1e76049fd32d142d81f6bc4 100644 (file)
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static acpi_status
 ec_parse_device(acpi_handle handle, u32 Level, void *context, void **retval)
 {
        acpi_status status;
-       unsigned long long tmp;
+       unsigned long long tmp = 0;
 
        struct acpi_ec *ec = context;
        status = acpi_walk_resources(handle, METHOD_NAME__CRS,
@@ -751,6 +751,7 @@ ec_parse_device(acpi_handle handle, u32 Level, void *context, void **retval)
                return status;
        ec->gpe = tmp;
        /* Use the global lock for all EC transactions? */
+       tmp = 0;
        acpi_evaluate_integer(handle, "_GLK", NULL, &tmp);
        ec->global_lock = tmp;
        ec->handle = handle;