[patch 33/33] ACPICA: Allow multiple backslash prefix in namepaths

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 13:49:36 EST


2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx>

commit d037c5fd7367548191eab2b376a1d08c4ffaf7ff upstream.

In a fully qualified namepath, allow multiple backslash prefixes.
This can happen because of the use of a double-backslash in strings
(since backslash is the escape character) causing confusion.
ACPICA BZ 739 Lin Ming.

http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=739

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c
@@ -314,9 +314,15 @@ void acpi_ns_get_internal_name_length(st
*
* strlen() + 1 covers the first name_seg, which has no path separator
*/
- if (acpi_ns_valid_root_prefix(next_external_char[0])) {
+ if (acpi_ns_valid_root_prefix(*next_external_char)) {
info->fully_qualified = TRUE;
next_external_char++;
+
+ /* Skip redundant root_prefix, like \\_SB.PCI0.SBRG.EC0 */
+
+ while (acpi_ns_valid_root_prefix(*next_external_char)) {
+ next_external_char++;
+ }
} else {
/*
* Handle Carat prefixes

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