On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 15:54 +0800, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:20:27AM +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote: > > Please attach the acpidump output using the latest pmtools at : > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/ > > Please attach the result of "cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/*" as > well. > > I've attached the output of acpidump. The cat results in this output: > > [noodles@meepok /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM]$ cat * > 0 - Active; 1 - Passive > <polling disabled> > state: ok > temperature: 40 C > Segmentation fault > > It also causes a general protection fault, which I've attached as > well. > > This is a stock Debian kernel: > > Linux meepok 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 11 13:47:43 UTC 2008 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > I have a patch from Ming Lin to try out but it'll have to wait until > tomorrow before I can do so. > We've root caused the problem and Lin Ming's patch should work for you. Please give it a try. :) From: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> Fix a memory overflow bug when copying NULL internal package element object to external. Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ acpi_ut_get_simple_object_size(union acp * element -- which is legal) */ if (!internal_object) { - *obj_length = 0; + *obj_length = sizeof(union acpi_object); return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
