> From: <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM
> Subject: mmotm 2009-07-16-14-32 - sudden OOPS at boot in ACPI code
> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bob Moore
> <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>, Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:34:02 PDT, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-07-16-14-32 has been uploaded to
>
> Dies a horrid death during early boot. Dell Latitude D820, and this graphics:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS
> 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1)
>
> Traceback (hand-copied from a very crappy cell-phone picture)
>
> strcmp+0x4/0x1f
> acpi_device+probe+0xac/0x13e
> driver_probe_device+0xc9/0x14e
> __driver_attach+0x58/0x7c
> ? __driver_attach+0x58/0x7c
> ? __driver_attach+0x58/0x7c
> bus_for_each_dev+0x54/0x89
> driver_attach+0x19/0x1b
> bus_add_driver+0xv4/0x1fe
> driver_register+0xb7/0x128
> ? acpi_video_init+0x0/0x17
> acpi_bus_register_driver+0x3e/0x42
> acpi_video_register+0x42/0x6e
> acpi_video_init+0x15/0x17
> do_one_initcall+0x56/0x130
>
> Analysis shows it's the following code from (inlined)
> acpi_device_install_notify_handler
>
> static int acpi_device_install_notify_handler(struct acpi_device *device)
> {
> acpi_status status;
> char *hid;
>
> hid = acpi_device_hid(device);
> if (!strcmp(hid, ACPI_BUTTON_HID_POWERF))
>
> but we never check if hid is non-trash before feeding it to strcmp. Looks
> like something in this linux-next commit is involved:
>
> commit ed444824932d2a563858d82ec1ea29b0aa775e91
> Author: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Jun 29 13:39:29 2009 +0800
>
> I suspect something in acpi_get_object_info() is going astray, causing
> acpi_device_set_id() to set the ->pnp.hardware_id to NULL in this code:
>
> if (hid) {
> device->pnp.hardware_id = ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED(strlen (hid) + 1);
> if (device->pnp.hardware_id) {
> strcpy(device->pnp.hardware_id, hid);
> device->flags.hardware_id = 1;
> }
> } else
> device->pnp.hardware_id = NULL;
>
> The else clause is new in this commit.
Hi, would you please try below patch?
diff --git a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
index 6e83a68..6c64366 100644
--- a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
+++ b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
@@ -188,8 +188,8 @@ struct acpi_device_pnp {
#define acpi_device_bid(d) ((d)->pnp.bus_id)
#define acpi_device_adr(d) ((d)->pnp.bus_address)
-#define acpi_device_hid(d) ((d)->pnp.hardware_id)
-#define acpi_device_uid(d) ((d)->pnp.unique_id)
+#define acpi_device_hid(d) ((d)->pnp.hardware_id ? (d)->pnp.hardware_id : "\0")
+#define acpi_device_uid(d) ((d)->pnp.unique_id ? (d)->pnp.unique_id : "\0")
#define acpi_device_name(d) ((d)->pnp.device_name)
#define acpi_device_class(d) ((d)->pnp.device_class)
Thanks,
Lin Ming
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