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ACPI oops with 2.5.8-pre3 on asus dual athlon (A7M266-D)

PATCH New Mikolaj J. Habryn 1 participant 1 message Apr 10, 2002 ACPI

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PATCH 1/1 ACPI oops with 2.5.8-pre3 on asus dual athlon (A7M266-D)

Null pointer dereference in some deep internal ACPI state thing.
Attached patch gets it past that point, but kernel then hangs after probing disks (as did -pre2, and possibly earlier ones). Almost certainly not the right fix :)

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drivers/acpi/executer/exfield.c renamed from drivers/acpi/executer/exfield.c.orig +4 -0
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@
 	/* Handle both ACPI 1.0 and ACPI 2.0 Integer widths */
 
 	integer_size = sizeof (acpi_integer);
+	if (!walk_state || !walk_state->method_node) {
+		printk("ACPI argh!\n");
+		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_ERROR);
+	}
 	if (walk_state->method_node->flags & ANOBJ_DATA_WIDTH_32) {
 		/*
 		 * We are running a method that exists in a 32-bit ACPI table.