[patch 41/41] ACPICA: Allow multiple backslash prefix in namepaths

[Greg KH]

2.6.27-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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