The call to acpi_os_validate_address in acpi_ds_get_region_arguments was removed by mistake in commit 9ad19ac(ACPICA: Split large dsopcode and dsload.c files). Put it back. Reported-and-bisected-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> --- Len, Could you apply this patch? And it should be ported to stable kernel since v2.6.39. drivers/acpi/acpica/dsargs.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsargs.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsargs.c index 634f5b2..d69e4a5 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsargs.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsargs.c @@ -387,5 +387,29 @@ acpi_status acpi_ds_get_region_arguments(union acpi_operand_object *obj_desc) status = acpi_ds_execute_arguments(node, extra_desc->extra.scope_node, extra_desc->extra.aml_length, extra_desc->extra.aml_start); + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) { + return_ACPI_STATUS(status); + } + + /* Validate the region address/length via the host OS */ + + status = acpi_os_validate_address(obj_desc->region.space_id, + obj_desc->region.address, + (acpi_size) obj_desc->region.length, + acpi_ut_get_node_name(node)); + + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) { + /* + * Invalid address/length. We will emit an error message and mark + * the region as invalid, so that it will cause an additional error if + * it is ever used. Then return AE_OK. + */ + ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status, + "During address validation of OpRegion [%4.4s]", + node->name.ascii)); + obj_desc->common.flags |= AOPOBJ_INVALID; + status = AE_OK; + } + return_ACPI_STATUS(status); } -- 1.7.2.5 -- 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