https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15174
--- Comment #21 from D. Hugh Redelmeier <h...@mimosa.com> 2010-03-24 21:04:46 --- Summary: it currently looks to me as if this bug is not in the current tree! Sorry for wasting your time! Details: I've tracked down the code from #17 to here: patchwork.kernel.org/patch/45457/mbox/ This is a message dated 2009 Sept 4 from Robert and Lin Ming related to http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=802 My guess is that this patch would prevent my problem occurring. That patch is not in the code base that I'm testing (CentOS 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 x86_64). The code in the CentOS kernel seems to make the package length the maximum of the specified length and the length of the initializer list. From linux-2.6.18.x86_64/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsobject.c: /* * The package length (number of elements) will be the greater * of the specified length and the length of the initializer list */ if (package_list_length > package_length) { obj_desc->package.count = package_list_length; } Since Red Hat backported 34d531e640cb805973cf656b15c716b961565cea, causing my problem, I guess that they need to backport 7f646eda8ad9c53589a0379f061cb0448f5fa6db to cure it. (UNTESTED) Does this make sense? (I don't even know if CentOS can run on a current kernel.org kernel so I don't know how to easily test a current kernel.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla
