ACK: [PATCH 4/4] acpi: rsdp: revision 1 must have length 20 according to ACPI 6.1 errata

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Fri Jun 16 07:52:21 UTC 2017


On 16/06/17 05:41, Alex Hung wrote:
> Spec update (mantis 1664) clearly points out length of revision 1 is 20,
> and no fields are beyond offset 19
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>
> ---
>  src/acpi/rsdp/rsdp.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/acpi/rsdp/rsdp.c b/src/acpi/rsdp/rsdp.c
> index a084d9c..becdbb2 100644
> --- a/src/acpi/rsdp/rsdp.c
> +++ b/src/acpi/rsdp/rsdp.c
> @@ -102,6 +102,19 @@ static int rsdp_test1(fwts_framework *fw)
>  			"firmware ACPI complaint.");
>  	}
>  
> +	/* ACPI 6.1 errata clarifies revision 1 must have length 20 */
> +	if (rsdp->revision == 1) {
> +		if (rsdp->length == 20)
> +			fwts_passed(fw, "RSDP: the table is the correct length.");
> +		else
> +			fwts_failed(fw, LOG_LEVEL_MEDIUM,
> +				"RSDPBadLength",
> +				"RSDP: length of Revision 1 is %d bytes but should be 20.",
> +				rsdp->length);
> +
> +		return FWTS_OK;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (rsdp->revision <= 2)
>  		fwts_passed(fw,
>  			    "RSDP: revision is %" PRIu8 ".", rsdp->revision);
> 
Good extra level of checking.

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>



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