[PATCH] ACPICA: Fix possible fault in return package object repair code

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From: Lin Ming <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-04 02:02:34
Subsystem: acpi, acpi component architecture (acpica), the rest · Maintainers: "Rafael J. Wysocki", Maciej Wieczor-Retman, Pawel Chmielewski, Linus Torvalds

From: Bob Moore <redacted>

Fixes a problem that can occur when a lone package object is
wrapped with an outer package object in order to conform to
the ACPI specification. Can affect these predefined names:
_ALR,_MLS,_PSS,_TRT,_TSS,_PRT,_HPX,_DLM,_CSD,_PSD,_TSD

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44171

Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <redacted>
---

Len, 

This is an important bug fix.
Could you merge it?

 drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c
index 23ce096..fe66260 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ acpi_ns_check_package(struct acpi_predefined_data *data,
 			/* Create the new outer package and populate it */
 
 			status =
-			    acpi_ns_wrap_with_package(data, *elements,
+			    acpi_ns_wrap_with_package(data, return_object,
 						      return_object_ptr);
 			if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
 				return (status);
-- 
1.7.2.5


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