Hi,
I am CCing to Robert Moore because is about acpi/tables/tbxfroot.c. This
is code from ACPICA
http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm
So we have to wait for the next version of ACPICA, on dmesg we can find
it, for example:
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
thanks,
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 23:42 +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> This patch check that rsdt_info->pointer is not NULL before trying to
> unmap ACPI tables, which can happen if acpi_tb_get_rsdt_address() failed.
>
> In my case, with ipmi_si_intf module and acpi=ht|off parameter, the call
> failed because acpi_gbl_table_flags is not initialised, so the
> address.pointer_type is not setup correctly, leading to message like:
>
> May 16 11:18:29 localhost kernel: ACPI-0166: *** Error: Invalid address flags 8
>
> and rsdt_info->pointer equal to NULL leading to the Oops.
>
> --- linux-2.6.11.9/drivers/acpi/tables/tbxfroot.c 2005-05-11 18:42:39.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.11.9-fixes/drivers/acpi/tables/tbxfroot.c 2005-05-16 16:51:33.115768232 -0400
> @@ -313,7 +313,9 @@ acpi_get_firmware_table (
>
>
> cleanup:
> - acpi_os_unmap_memory (rsdt_info->pointer, (acpi_size) rsdt_info->pointer->length);
> + if (rsdt_info->pointer) {
> + acpi_os_unmap_memory (rsdt_info->pointer, (acpi_size) rsdt_info->pointer->length);
> + }
> ACPI_MEM_FREE (rsdt_info);
>
> if (header) {
>
>
> Signed-Off-by: [email protected]
>
--
Sérgio M.B.
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