3.8.13.13 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: Bob Moore <robert.mo...@intel.com>

commit 3f654bad3257427bea7ba1c4d43a23d99a03622b upstream.

For the cases such as a store of a string to an existing package
object, implement the store as a CopyObject().
This is a small departure from the ACPI specification which states
that the control method should be aborted in this case. However,
ASLTS suite depends on this behavior.

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.mo...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zh...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <ka...@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/acpica/exstore.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exstore.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exstore.c
index 90431f1..4ff37e8 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exstore.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exstore.c
@@ -487,14 +487,33 @@ acpi_ex_store_object_to_node(union acpi_operand_object 
*source_desc,
        default:
 
                ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_EXEC,
-                                 "Storing %s (%p) directly into node (%p) with 
no implicit conversion\n",
+                                 "Storing [%s] (%p) directly into node [%s] 
(%p)"
+                                 " with no implicit conversion\n",
                                  acpi_ut_get_object_type_name(source_desc),
-                                 source_desc, node));
+                                 source_desc,
+                                 acpi_ut_get_object_type_name(target_desc),
+                                 node));
 
-               /* No conversions for all other types. Just attach the source 
object */
+               /*
+                * No conversions for all other types. Directly store a copy of
+                * the source object. NOTE: This is a departure from the ACPI
+                * spec, which states "If conversion is impossible, abort the
+                * running control method".
+                *
+                * This code implements "If conversion is impossible, treat the
+                * Store operation as a CopyObject".
+                */
+               status =
+                   acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject(source_desc, &new_desc,
+                                                   walk_state);
+               if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+                       return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
+               }
 
-               status = acpi_ns_attach_object(node, source_desc,
-                                              source_desc->common.type);
+               status =
+                   acpi_ns_attach_object(node, new_desc,
+                                         new_desc->common.type);
+               acpi_ut_remove_reference(new_desc);
                break;
        }
 
-- 
1.8.1.2

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