Re: [PATCH] ACPI/Battery: Fix parsing _BIX return value

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jul 30 2013 - 09:51:28 EST


On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 09:54:58 AM tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The _BIX method returns extended battery info as a package. According
> ACPI spec 10.2.2.2, the first member should be "Revision". However,
> current acpi battery driver treats the first member as "Power Unit"
> which should be the second member. So the parsing operation is mismatch.
> This patch is to fix it.
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Jan Hoffmann <jan.christian.hoffmann@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60519
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx #v2.6.34+
> Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>

Well, that's one of the most embarrassing bugs I've ever seen. :-)

Queued up as a fix for 3.11.

Thanks,
Rafael


> ---
> drivers/acpi/battery.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> index c760b61..2c9958c 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ struct acpi_battery {
> struct acpi_device *device;
> struct notifier_block pm_nb;
> unsigned long update_time;
> + int revision;
> int rate_now;
> int capacity_now;
> int voltage_now;
> @@ -359,6 +360,7 @@ static struct acpi_offsets info_offsets[] = {
> };
>
> static struct acpi_offsets extended_info_offsets[] = {
> + {offsetof(struct acpi_battery, revision), 0},
> {offsetof(struct acpi_battery, power_unit), 0},
> {offsetof(struct acpi_battery, design_capacity), 0},
> {offsetof(struct acpi_battery, full_charge_capacity), 0},
>
--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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