Hi, Len This is the important fix for the WMI based HotKey issue reported by Dell. Could you merge it to 2.6.31-rc8? Thanks, Lin Ming --- Subject: [PATCH] ACPICA: Windows compatibility fix: same buffer/string store Fixes a compatibility issue when the same buffer or string is stored to itself. This has been seen in the field. Previously, ACPICA would zero out the buffer/string. Now, the operation is treated as a noop. ACPICA BZ 803. http://bugzilla.acpica.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803 Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/acpica/exstorob.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exstorob.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exstorob.c index 67340cc..257706e 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exstorob.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exstorob.c @@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ acpi_ex_store_buffer_to_buffer(union acpi_operand_object *source_desc, ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE_PTR(ex_store_buffer_to_buffer, source_desc); + /* If Source and Target are the same, just return */ + + if (source_desc == target_desc) { + return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK); + } + /* We know that source_desc is a buffer by now */ buffer = ACPI_CAST_PTR(u8, source_desc->buffer.pointer); @@ -161,6 +167,12 @@ acpi_ex_store_string_to_string(union acpi_operand_object *source_desc, ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE_PTR(ex_store_string_to_string, source_desc); + /* If Source and Target are the same, just return */ + + if (source_desc == target_desc) { + return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK); + } + /* We know that source_desc is a string by now */ buffer = ACPI_CAST_PTR(u8, source_desc->string.pointer); -- 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
