On Thursday, January 08, 2015 10:32:59 AM Jiang Liu wrote:
> Enforce stricter checks for address space descriptors according to
> ACPI spec.

So is the spec the only reason for doing this?  If so, I'd say don't.

> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/resource.c |    8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/resource.c b/drivers/acpi/resource.c
> index 26b47f1da523..e82149e44347 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/resource.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/resource.c
> @@ -192,6 +192,14 @@ static bool acpi_decode_space(struct resource *res,
>       bool wp = base->info.mem.write_protect;
>       u64 len = addr->address_length;
>  
> +     /*
> +      * Filter out invalid descriptor according to ACPI Spec 5.0, section
> +      * 6.4.3.5 Address Space Resource Descriptors.
> +      */
> +     if ((base->min_address_fixed != base->max_address_fixed && len) ||
> +         (base->min_address_fixed && base->max_address_fixed && !len))
> +             return false;
> +
>       res->start = addr->minimum;
>       res->end = addr->maximum;
>  
> 

-- 
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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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