> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhenhua [mailto:lizhenhuajiy...@163.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 6:35 AM
> To: de...@acpica.org; Moore, Robert <robert.mo...@intel.com>; Zheng, Lv
> <lv.zh...@intel.com>; Wysocki, Rafael J <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>;
> l...@kernel.org; linux-a...@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> ker...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Zhenhua <lizhenhuajiy...@163.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: NULL pointer checking
>
> These two pointers should be checked, for some broken devices they may
> cause system crash.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhenhua <lizhenhuajiy...@163.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c
> b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c index f2733f51ca8d..151abb0ef4d5 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c
> @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ acpi_ns_lookup(union acpi_generic_state *scope_info,
> return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_AML_INTERNAL);
> }
>
> - if (!(flags & ACPI_NS_PREFIX_IS_SCOPE)) {
> + if ((!prefix_node) && (!(flags & ACPI_NS_PREFIX_IS_SCOPE))) {
[Moore, Robert]
Is there an actual case where the original code failed?
> /*
> * This node might not be a actual "scope" node (such as
> a
> * Device/Method, etc.) It could be a Package or other
> object @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ acpi_ns_lookup(union acpi_generic_state
> *scope_info,
> ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_NAMES,
> "Null Pathname (Zero segments), Flags=%X\n",
> flags));
> - } else {
> + } else if (path) {
> /*
> * Name pointer is valid (and must be in internal name
> format)
> *
> --
> 2.14.1
>
