On Thursday, 23 of October 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> ACPI Warning (nseval-0168): Insufficient arguments - method [_OSC] needs 5, found 4 [20080926]
> ACPI Warning (nspredef-0252): \_SB_.PCI0._OSC: Parameter count mismatch - ASL declared 5, expected 4 [20080926]
> ACPI Error (nspredef-0163): \_SB_.PCI0._OSC: Missing expected return value [20080926]
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000
> IP: [<c0237671>] acpi_run_osc+0xa1/0x170
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> last sysfs file:
> Dumping ftrace buffer:
> (ftrace buffer empty)
> Modules linked in:
>
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.27 #124) IBM eServer 206m-[8485IZZ]-
> EIP: 0060:[<c0237671>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 1
> EIP is at acpi_run_osc+0xa1/0x170
> EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000010 ECX: 00000003 EDX: f704d4ec
> ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f704fde4 ESP: f704fd7c
> DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=f704e000 task=f704d150 task.ti=f704e000)
> Stack:
> f704fdc8 f704fdf0 00000001 00000003 00000010 c04f4a28 c014c3ab 00000001
> 00000001 00000000 f68766a0 00000001 00000003 00000000 f704fdd4 00000003
> 0000000c f704fdf0 c023759b 00000000 00000000 00000004 f704fd88 00000010
> Call Trace:
> [<c014c3ab>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
> [<c023759b>] ? acpi_get_osc_data+0x5b/0x90
> [<c02378c4>] ? acpi_query_osc+0x74/0xa0
> [<c02486bb>] ? acpi_ns_get_device_callback+0xfe/0x112
> [<c0249dbe>] ? acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0x9a/0x110
> [<c033a5cc>] ? pci_init+0x0/0x44
> [<c0248541>] ? acpi_get_devices+0x47/0x5d
> [<c02485bd>] ? acpi_ns_get_device_callback+0x0/0x112
> [<c0237850>] ? acpi_query_osc+0x0/0xa0
> [<c0237918>] ? __pci_osc_support_set+0x28/0x30
> [<c033b99c>] ? msi_init+0x27/0x38
> [<c033a5fc>] ? pci_init+0x30/0x44
> [<c010111d>] ? do_one_initcall+0x2d/0x160
> [<c014c3ab>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
> [<c01d6c5e>] ? proc_register+0xee/0x1f0
> [<c03482ad>] ? _spin_unlock+0x1d/0x20
> [<c01d6c5e>] ? proc_register+0xee/0x1f0
> [<c01d6e64>] ? create_proc_entry+0x54/0xb0
> [<c01622a4>] ? register_irq_proc+0xa4/0xc0
> [<c016231c>] ? init_irq_proc+0x5c/0x70
> [<c0521325>] ? kernel_init+0x10f/0x166
> [<c0521216>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x166
> [<c0104213>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
> Code: 00 00 00 c7 45 cc 00 00 00 00 c7 45 d4 03 00 00 00 c7 45 d8 0c 00 00 00 ba 80 41 4a c0 e8 67 10 01 00 89 c7 85 c0 75 4a 8b 75 e8 <83> 3e 03 75 5c 8b 46 08 8b 18 85 db 74 29 f6 c3 02 0f 85 82 00
> EIP: [<c0237671>] acpi_run_osc+0xa1/0x170 SS:ESP 0068:f704fd7c
> ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
> swapper used greatest stack depth: 5788 bytes left
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Does this patch help?
---
drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ static acpi_status acpi_run_osc(acpi_han
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
return status;
+ if (!output.pointer)
+ return AE_NULL_OBJECT;
+
out_obj = output.pointer;
if (out_obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER) {
printk(KERN_DEBUG "Evaluate _OSC returns wrong type\n");
--
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