From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:44:13 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: ACPICA: Fix acpi_evaluate_object_typed()
X-Git-Tag: v4.13-rc7~27^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b40eebcd339c47921ff8b04c77af7c762b74216;p=linux.git

ACPICA: Fix acpi_evaluate_object_typed()

Commit 2d2a954375a0 (ACPICA: Update two error messages to emit
control method name) causes acpi_evaluate_object_typed() to fail
if its pathname argument is NULL, but some callers of that function
in the kernel, particularly acpi_nondev_subnode_data_ok(), pass
NULL as pathname to it and expect it to work.

For this reason, make acpi_evaluate_object_typed() check if its
pathname argument is NULL and fall back to using the pathname of
its handle argument if that is the case.

Reported-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@intel.com>
Tested-by: Yang, Hyungwoo <hyungwoo.yang@intel.com>
Fixes: 2d2a954375a0 (ACPICA: Update two error messages to emit control method name)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c
index 538c61677c10..783f4c838aee 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c
@@ -100,9 +100,13 @@ acpi_evaluate_object_typed(acpi_handle handle,
 		free_buffer_on_error = TRUE;
 	}
 
-	status = acpi_get_handle(handle, pathname, &target_handle);
-	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
-		return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
+	if (pathname) {
+		status = acpi_get_handle(handle, pathname, &target_handle);
+		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+			return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
+		}
+	} else {
+		target_handle = handle;
 	}
 
 	full_pathname = acpi_ns_get_external_pathname(target_handle);