Re: [Debug 2/2] x86/PCI/ACPI: Relax ACPI resource descriptor checks to work around BIOS bugs

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On 2015/3/3 23:18, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Some BIOSes report incorrect length for ACPI address space descriptors,
>> so relax the checks to avoid regressions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> It'd be nice to have a DSDT archived and referenced in this changelog
> for future reference.  This sounds similar to previous issues:
Hi all,
	Could anybody help to dump an ACPI table from those failure
systems so we could archive it?
Thanks!
Gerry

> 
> 3162b6f0c5e1 ("PNPACPI: truncate _CRS windows with _LEN > _MAX - _MIN + 1")
> d558b483d5a7 ("x86/PCI: truncate _CRS windows with _LEN > _MAX - _MIN + 1")
> f238b414a74a ("PNPACPI: compute Address Space length rather than using _LEN")
> 48728e077480 ("x86/PCI: compute Address Space length rather than using _LEN")
> 
> I assume your work fixes both these paths and avoids the issues we fixed above.
> 
>> ---
>>  drivers/acpi/resource.c |    4 +++-
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/resource.c b/drivers/acpi/resource.c
>> index c723668e3e27..5589a6e2a023 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/resource.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/resource.c
>> @@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ static bool acpi_dev_resource_len_valid(u64 start, u64 end, u64 len, bool io)
>>          * CHECKME: len might be required to check versus a minimum
>>          * length as well. 1 for io is fine, but for memory it does
>>          * not make any sense at all.
>> +        * Note: some BIOSes report incorrect length for ACPI address space
>> +        * descriptor, so remove check of 'reslen == len' to avoid regression.
>>          */
>> -       if (len && reslen && reslen == len && start <= end)
>> +       if (len && reslen && start <= end)
>>                 return true;
>>
>>         pr_debug("ACPI: invalid or unassigned resource %s [%016llx - %016llx] length [%016llx]\n",
>> --
>> 1.7.10.4
>>
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