[patch 22/33] ACPI: Reject below-freezing temperatures as invalidcritical temperatures

[Greg KH]

2.6.25-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit a39a2d7c72b358c6253a2ec28e17b023b7f6f41c upstream

My laptop thinks that it's a good idea to give -73C as the critical
CPU temperature.... which isn't the best thing since it causes a shutdown
right at bootup.

Temperatures below freezing are clearly invalid critical thresholds
so just reject these as such.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/acpi/thermal.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
@@ -359,10 +359,17 @@ static int acpi_thermal_trips_update(str
 	if (flag & ACPI_TRIPS_CRITICAL) {
 		status = acpi_evaluate_integer(tz->device->handle,
 				"_CRT", NULL, &tz->trips.critical.temperature);
-		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+		/*
+		 * Treat freezing temperatures as invalid as well; some
+		 * BIOSes return really low values and cause reboots at startup.
+		 * Below zero (Celcius) values clearly aren't right for sure..
+		 * ... so lets discard those as invalid.
+		 */
+		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) ||
+				tz->trips.critical.temperature <= 2732) {
 			tz->trips.critical.flags.valid = 0;
 			ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status,
-					"No critical threshold"));
+					"No or invalid critical threshold"));
 			return -ENODEV;
 		} else {
 			tz->trips.critical.flags.valid = 1;

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