[Debug 2/2] x86/PCI/ACPI: Relax ACPI resource descriptor checks to work around BIOS bugs

[Jiang Liu]

Some BIOSes report incorrect length for ACPI address space descriptors,
so relax the checks to avoid regressions.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/acpi/resource.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/resource.c b/drivers/acpi/resource.c
index c723668e3e27..5589a6e2a023 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/resource.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/resource.c
@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ static bool acpi_dev_resource_len_valid(u64 start, u64 end, u64 len, bool io)
 	 * CHECKME: len might be required to check versus a minimum
 	 * length as well. 1 for io is fine, but for memory it does
 	 * not make any sense at all.
+	 * Note: some BIOSes report incorrect length for ACPI address space
+	 * descriptor, so remove check of 'reslen == len' to avoid regression.
 	 */
-	if (len && reslen && reslen == len && start <= end)
+	if (len && reslen && start <= end)
 		return true;
 
 	pr_debug("ACPI: invalid or unassigned resource %s [%016llx - %016llx] length [%016llx]\n",
-- 
1.7.10.4

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