Re: [PATCH 05/11] ACPICA: AML Parser: skip opcodes that open a scope upon parse failure

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On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:51 PM Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 05:52:49PM +0000, Schmauss, Erik wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rafael@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 2:47 AM
> > > To: Schmauss, Erik <erik.schmauss@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Rafael J. Wysocki
> > > <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] ACPICA: AML Parser: skip opcodes that open a scope
> > > upon parse failure
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:45 PM Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This change skips the entire length of opcodes that open a scope
> > > > (Device, Scope, Processor, etc) if the creation of the op fails. The
> > > > failure could be caused by various errors including AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> > > > and AE_NOT_FOUND.
> > > >
> > > > Reported-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx>
> > > > Tested-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > I think that we should propagate this fix to the "stable" kernel series, at least
> > > 4.17.y and newer.  Do you agree?
> >
> > Yes, I agree.
> >
> > Hi Greg, please add this to the stable kernel
>
> What commit id should I add to the stable kernel?

It's not in the mainline yet.

I asked whether or not I should add a "Cc: stable" tag to this patch
when applying it. :-)

Cheers,
Rafael



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