Re: [PATCH] Fix segfault when printing battery status

[Alexey Starikovskiy]

Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>   
> > Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> >     
> > > cat
> > > /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:19/PNP0C0A:00/power_
> > > supply/BAT1/status
> > >
> > > This leads to a stacktrace as acpi_battery_get_property() returns 0 for a
> > > case where it does not set val->intval. These value is used as an array
> > > index in
> > > drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c::power_supply_show_property(). I had a
> > > situation where the value was 4096 which caused a problem as the array
> > > only has 5 entries.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >       
> > Rolf, thanks for remainding.
> >     
>
> Huh? This one is unrelated to the problem I reported two weeks ago...
>
> Eike
>   
You are second to send the same patch, first one I already acked.
But it seems that Len did not pick it up yet.
Look for "ACPI: Always return valid 'status' from 
acpi_battery_get_property()"
if interested...

Regards,
Alex.

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