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platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: re-initialize acpi buffer size when reuse

Message ID 20200929082025.51446-1-aaron.ma@canonical.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Series platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: re-initialize acpi buffer size when reuse | expand

Commit Message

Aaron Ma Sept. 29, 2020, 8:20 a.m. UTC
Evaluating acpi _BCL could be failed, then acpi buffer size will be set
to 0. When reuse this acpi buffer, AE_BUFFER_OVERFLOW will be triggered.

Re-initialize buffer size will make acpi evaluate successfully.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Andy Shevchenko Sept. 30, 2020, 1:55 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:20 AM Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Evaluating acpi _BCL could be failed, then acpi buffer size will be set

'could be failed' -> 'could fail'

> to 0. When reuse this acpi buffer, AE_BUFFER_OVERFLOW will be triggered.
>
> Re-initialize buffer size will make acpi evaluate successfully.

acpi -> ACPI in all cases above.

Fixes tag, please?

> Signed-off-by: Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@canonical.com>

Code is okay.
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diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
index 9c4df41687a3..477d63c49c04 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -6829,8 +6829,10 @@  static int __init tpacpi_query_bcl_levels(acpi_handle handle)
 	list_for_each_entry(child, &device->children, node) {
 		acpi_status status = acpi_evaluate_object(child->handle, "_BCL",
 							  NULL, &buffer);
-		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
+		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+			buffer.length = ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER;
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		obj = (union acpi_object *)buffer.pointer;
 		if (!obj || (obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE)) {