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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c index efdadc74e3f4..103f29661576 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c @@ -649,6 +649,13 @@ acpi_video_device_EDID(struct acpi_video_device *device, void **edid, int length obj = buffer.pointer; + /* + * Some buggy implementations incorrectly return the EDID buffer in an ACPI package. + * In this case, extract the buffer from the package. + */ + if (obj && obj->type == ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE && obj->package.count == 1) + obj = &obj->package.elements[0]; + if (obj && obj->type == ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER) { *edid = kmemdup(obj->buffer.pointer, obj->buffer.length, GFP_KERNEL); ret = *edid ? obj->buffer.length : -ENOMEM; @@ -658,7 +665,7 @@ acpi_video_device_EDID(struct acpi_video_device *device, void **edid, int length ret = -EFAULT; } - kfree(obj); + kfree(buffer.pointer); return ret; } |