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ACPICA: Warn if packages with invalid references are evaluated 

And return an error to avoid NULL pointer access by the caller
Lin Ming's patch avoids corrupted mem access when
BIOS has invalid references included, the handle is now zero
instead of corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Thomas Renninger 2008-03-12 01:06:24 +01:00 committed by Len Brown
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commit b6a1638759
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@ -407,6 +407,12 @@ acpi_evaluate_reference(acpi_handle handle,
break;
}
if (!element->reference.handle) {
printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX "Invalid reference in"
" package %s\n", pathname);
status = AE_NULL_ENTRY;
break;
}
/* Get the acpi_handle. */
list->handles[i] = element->reference.handle;