Re: [PATCH] RFC: platform/x86: wmi: Fix check for method instance number

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Sun Aug 06 2017 - 16:21:23 EST


On Sunday 06 August 2017 18:10:12 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 July 2017 22:24:20 Pali RohÃr wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 05 July 2017 21:30:35 David Airlie wrote:
> >> > > On Saturday 17 June 2017 18:47:54 Pali RohÃr wrote:
> >> > > > > So problematic drivers which use instance=1 without any
> >> > > > > comments
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > are:
> >> > > > > acer-wmi
> >> > > > > asus-wmi
> >> > > > > mxm-wmi
> >
> > Hi! For mxm-wmi I found this document:
> > https://lekensteyn.nl/files/docs/mxm-2.1-software-spec.pdf
> >
> > On page numbered 26 (resp. in PDF page 31) is information about WMI
> > GUID {F6CB5C3C-9CAE-4EBD-B577-931EA32A2CC0} interface and there is
> > written that instance count = 1.
> >
> > // Methods GUID {F6CB5C3C-9CAE-4ebd-B577-931EA32A2CC0}
> > 0x3C, 0x5C, 0xCB, 0xF6, 0xAE, 0x9C, 0xbd, 0x4e, 0xB5, 0x77, 0x93,
> > 0x1E, 0xA3, 0x2A, 0x2C, 0xC0,
> > 0x4D, 0x58, // Object ID âMXâ = method âWMMXâ
> > 1, // Instance Count
> > 0x02, // Flags (WMIACPI_REGFLAG_METHOD)
> >
> > And ACPI method for handling this WMI call does not check Arg0 and
> > Arg1 at all.
> >
> > So... Andy, Darren, any objections for following patch which
> > changes instance number from one to zero?
>
> No objections from me! Just put enough explanation into commit
> message.

Ok.

Now I found ACPI code for asus-wmi.c GUID
97845ED0-4E6D-11DE-8A39-0800200C9A66 on https://lwn.net/Articles/391249/
and there is also in _WDG buffer instance count just 1 and WMBC method
do not check Arg0.

So asus-wmi.c needs to be fixed too.

--
Pali RohÃr
pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx

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