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.
Created attachment 6257 [details] ASL code to reproduce bug. The Store operations of demo program attempt to rewrite the contents of the target objects of RefOf references passed immediately to the Store operations as a return of some Method call. The following verification shows that in fact the target objects are not changed. That is considered as errors. One of choices for Destination of Store operation "Store(Source, Destination)" is a call to Method: SuperName->Type6Opcode->UserTermObj-><NameString TermArgList> INTERNAL BUG NUMBER 131
INTERNAL BUG NUMBER: 228 (there were two bugs with 131 internal IID)
Ported to acpica.org bugzilla as bug# 710. Close this one.
http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=710