Commit 460a5310 authored by Erik Schmauss's avatar Erik Schmauss Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki

ACPICA: AML Parser: ignore control method status in module-level code

Previous change in the AML parser code blindly set all non-successful
dispatcher statuses to AE_OK. That approach is incorrect, though,
because successful control method invocations from module-level
return AE_CTRL_TRANSFER. Overwriting AE_OK to this status causes the
AML parser to think that there was no return value from the control
method invocation.

Fixes: 92c0f4af386 (ACPICA: AML Parser: ignore dispatcher error status during table load)
Reported-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: default avatarOleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: default avatarErik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent 73c2a01c
......@@ -709,15 +709,20 @@ acpi_status acpi_ps_parse_loop(struct acpi_walk_state *walk_state)
} else
if ((walk_state->
parse_flags & ACPI_PARSE_MODULE_LEVEL)
&& status != AE_CTRL_TRANSFER
&& ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
/*
* ACPI_PARSE_MODULE_LEVEL means that we are loading a table by
* executing it as a control method. However, if we encounter
* an error while loading the table, we need to keep trying to
* load the table rather than aborting the table load. Set the
* status to AE_OK to proceed with the table load. If we get a
* failure at this point, it means that the dispatcher got an
* error while processing Op (most likely an AML operand error.
* ACPI_PARSE_MODULE_LEVEL flag means that we are currently
* loading a table by executing it as a control method.
* However, if we encounter an error while loading the table,
* we need to keep trying to load the table rather than
* aborting the table load (setting the status to AE_OK
* continues the table load). If we get a failure at this
* point, it means that the dispatcher got an error while
* processing Op (most likely an AML operand error) or a
* control method was called from module level and the
* dispatcher returned AE_CTRL_TRANSFER. In the latter case,
* leave the status alone, there's nothing wrong with it.
*/
status = AE_OK;
}
......
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