From: Corey Minyard Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:10 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] IPMI: fix for handling bad ACPI data X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35bc37a0e0979a091bcf5d9161ffe935b3aa998c;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal7580.git [PATCH] IPMI: fix for handling bad ACPI data If the ACPI register bit width is zero (an invalid value) assume it is the default spacing. This avoids some coredumps on invalid data and makes some systems work that have broken ACPI data. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index 3522723eb6b..7522bd5f94d 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -1526,8 +1526,17 @@ static int try_init_acpi(int intf_num, struct smi_info **new_info) info->irq_setup = NULL; } - regspacings[intf_num] = spmi->addr.register_bit_width / 8; - info->io.regspacing = spmi->addr.register_bit_width / 8; + if (spmi->addr.register_bit_width) { + /* A (hopefully) properly formed register bit width. */ + regspacings[intf_num] = spmi->addr.register_bit_width / 8; + info->io.regspacing = spmi->addr.register_bit_width / 8; + } else { + /* Some broken systems get this wrong and set the value + * to zero. Assume it is the default spacing. If that + * is wrong, too bad, the vendor should fix the tables. */ + regspacings[intf_num] = DEFAULT_REGSPACING; + info->io.regspacing = DEFAULT_REGSPACING; + } regsizes[intf_num] = regspacings[intf_num]; info->io.regsize = regsizes[intf_num]; regshifts[intf_num] = spmi->addr.register_bit_offset;