This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPI / scan: do not match drivers against objects having scan handlers
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
acpi-scan-do-not-match-drivers-against-objects-having-scan-handlers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9f29ab11ddbfc12db54df5a66dab22b39ad94e8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 23:02:58 +0200
Subject: ACPI / scan: do not match drivers against objects having scan handlers
From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 9f29ab11ddbfc12db54df5a66dab22b39ad94e8e upstream.
With the introduction of ACPI scan handlers, an ACPI device object
with an ACPI scan handler attached to it must not be bound to an ACPI
driver any more. Therefore it doesn't make sense to match those
ACPI device objects against a newly registered ACPI driver in
acpi_bus_match(), so make that function return 0 if the device
object passed to it has an ACPI scan handler attached.
This also addresses a regression related to a broken ACPI table in
the BIOS, where it has defined a _ROM method under the PCI root
bridge object. This causes the video module to treat that object
as a display controller device (since only display devices are
supposed to have a _ROM method defined according to the ACPI spec).
As a result, the ACPI video driver binds to the PCI root bridge
object and overwrites the previously assigned driver_data field of
it, causing subsequent calls to acpi_get_pci_dev() to fail.
[rjw: Subject and changelog]
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58091
Reported-by: Jason Cassell <bluesloth600@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-and-bisected-by: Dmitry S. Demin <dmitryy.demin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/scan.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
@@ -553,6 +553,10 @@ static int acpi_bus_match(struct device
struct acpi_device *acpi_dev = to_acpi_device(dev);
struct acpi_driver *acpi_drv = to_acpi_driver(drv);
+ /* Skip ACPI device objects with scan handlers attached. */
+ if (acpi_dev->handler)
+ return 0;
+
return acpi_dev->flags.match_driver
&& !acpi_match_device_ids(acpi_dev, acpi_drv->ids);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/acpi-scan-do-not-match-drivers-against-objects-having-scan-handlers.patch
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