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authorBob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>2018-01-04 02:06:22 +0300
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2018-01-05 03:33:22 +0300
commit896bece7eccb0e756cf91ac92479d764a8a28f5b (patch)
treee93a09381c91070b44c02ade175a1b01bad05fb9 /drivers
parent6be2d72b186497079aeb63d5730cb84393566fd3 (diff)
downloadlinux-896bece7eccb0e756cf91ac92479d764a8a28f5b.tar.xz
ACPICA: Fix a regression in the acpi_evaluate_object_type() interface
ACPICA commit 9ab548ef154b992208524d61770caca90a9762be The optional Pathname parameter inadvertently became required. Introduced in April 2017. Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/9ab548ef Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c
index 783f4c838aee..9b51f65823b2 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ static void acpi_ns_resolve_references(struct acpi_evaluate_info *info);
*
* PARAMETERS: handle - Object handle (optional)
* pathname - Object pathname (optional)
- * external_params - List of parameters to pass to method,
+ * external_params - List of parameters to pass to a method,
* terminated by NULL. May be NULL
* if no parameters are being passed.
- * return_buffer - Where to put method's return value (if
+ * return_buffer - Where to put the object's return value (if
* any). If NULL, no value is returned.
* return_type - Expected type of return object
*
@@ -100,13 +100,14 @@ acpi_evaluate_object_typed(acpi_handle handle,
free_buffer_on_error = TRUE;
}
+ /* Get a handle here, in order to build an error message if needed */
+
+ target_handle = handle;
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);