Merge branch 'for-ingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6 into x86/apic

Merge reason: the SFI (Simple Firmware Interface) feature in the ACPI
              tree needs this cleanup, pull it into the APIC branch as
	      well so that there's no interactions.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsopcode.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsopcode.c
index 584d766e6f12..b79978f7bc71 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsopcode.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsopcode.c
@@ -397,6 +397,30 @@ acpi_status acpi_ds_get_region_arguments(union acpi_operand_object *obj_desc)
 	status = acpi_ds_execute_arguments(node, acpi_ns_get_parent_node(node),
 					   extra_desc->extra.aml_length,
 					   extra_desc->extra.aml_start);
+	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+		return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
+	}
+
+	/* Validate the region address/length via the host OS */
+
+	status = acpi_os_validate_address(obj_desc->region.space_id,
+					  obj_desc->region.address,
+					  (acpi_size) obj_desc->region.length,
+					  acpi_ut_get_node_name(node));
+
+	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+		/*
+		 * Invalid address/length. We will emit an error message and mark
+		 * the region as invalid, so that it will cause an additional error if
+		 * it is ever used. Then return AE_OK.
+		 */
+		ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status,
+				"During address validation of OpRegion [%4.4s]",
+				node->name.ascii));
+		obj_desc->common.flags |= AOPOBJ_INVALID;
+		status = AE_OK;
+	}
+
 	return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
 }