On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 13:28 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > /** > > + * acpi_evaluate_fit: Evaluate _FIT method to get an updated NFIT > > + * @handle: ACPI device handle > > + * @buf: buffer for the updated NFIT > > + * > > + * Evaluate device's _FIT method if present to get an updated NFIT > > + */ > > +acpi_status acpi_evaluate_fit(acpi_handle handle, struct > > acpi_buffer **buf) > > +{ > > + acpi_status status; > > + struct acpi_buffer buffer = { ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, NULL > > }; > > + > > + status = acpi_evaluate_object(handle, "_FIT", NULL, > > &buffer); > > + > > + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) > > + return status; > > + > > + *buf = &buffer; > > Umm, unless I'm missing something, you're returning a stack address. Good point, you're right. Dan/Rafael, is it OK to just remove this patch entirely, and call acpi_evaluate_object directly from nfit.c? The current way did feel a bit kludgey to me any way because I was allocating a buffer here (above), but trying to free it in the caller, which seems very ugly.. ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{�����ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f