RE: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 01/56] ACPICA: Resources: Not a valid resource if buffer length too long

[alexander . levin]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 03:39:22PM +0000, Moore, Robert wrote:
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>> Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 01/56] ACPICA: Resources: Not a valid
>> resource if buffer length too long
>>
>> From: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 57707a9a7780fab426b8ae9b4c7b65b912a748b3 ]
>>
>> ACPICA commit 9f76de2d249b18804e35fb55d14b1c2604d627a1
>> ACPICA commit b2e89d72ef1e9deefd63c3fd1dee90f893575b3a
>> ACPICA commit 23b5bbe6d78afd3c5abf3adb91a1b098a3000b2e
>>
>> The declared buffer length must be the same as the length of the byte
>> initializer list, otherwise not a valid resource descriptor.
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>[Moore, Robert]
>
>Please explain what you are doing here.

Proposing this commit for the 4.9 LTS tree.

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Thanks,
Sasha