Bug 5387 - No exception on DerefOf of an arbitrary Source
Summary: No exception on DerefOf of an arbitrary Source
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: ACPI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ACPICA-Core (show other bugs)
Hardware: i386 Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Valery A Podrezov
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Reported: 2005-10-07 07:43 UTC by Valery A Podrezov
Modified: 2006-09-28 13:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Kernel Version: 2.6
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Regression: ---
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ASL code to reproduce bug. (759 bytes, text/plain)
2005-10-07 07:45 UTC, Valery A Podrezov 		Details
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Description Valery A Podrezov 2005-10-07 07:43:30 UTC 
Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur:
Distribution:
Hardware Environment:
Software Environment:
Problem Description:

The Linux kernel ACPI interpreter fails the following
AML test when it is compiled into a simulator. So if an
OEM BIOS includes this code, Linux would fail.

Steps to reproduce:

Run interpreter with the .asl demo code attached below.
Comment 1 Valery A Podrezov 2005-10-07 07:45:37 UTC 
Created attachment 6249 [details]
ASL code to reproduce bug.

The attached program demonstarates the exception conditions -
each DerefOf operation is expected to cause exception. But in
fact not all of them actually occur.


INTERNAL BUG NUMBER

   83
Comment 2 Valery A Podrezov 2006-02-03 04:19:04 UTC 
This bug is fixed by patch to Bug 5360.
Comment 3 Robert Moore 2006-02-10 14:24:55 UTC 
Released in ACPICA version 20060210
Comment 4 Len Brown 2006-06-25 21:57:30 UTC 
ACPICA 20060608 shipped in Linux-2.6.17-git9, closed.
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