Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND 04/18] acpi: Introduce acpi_verify_initrd() to check if a table is invalid.

[Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>]

On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 17:14 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> In acpi_initrd_override(), it checks several things to ensure the
> table it found is valid. In later patches, we need to do these check
> somewhere else. So this patch introduces a common function
> acpi_verify_initrd() to do all these checks, and reuse it in different

Typo: acpi_verify_initrd() -> acpi_verify_table()

-Toshi


> places. The function will be used in the subsequent patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/osl.c |   86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> index 3b8bab2..0043e9f 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> @@ -572,9 +572,68 @@ static const char * const table_sigs[] = {
>  /* Must not increase 10 or needs code modification below */
>  #define ACPI_OVERRIDE_TABLES 10
>  
> +/*******************************************************************************
> + *
> + * FUNCTION:    acpi_verify_table
> + *
> + * PARAMETERS:  File               - The initrd file
> + *              Path               - Path to acpi overriding tables in cpio file
> + *              Signature          - Signature of the table
> + *
> + * RETURN:      0 if it passes all the checks, -EINVAL if any check fails.
> + *
> + * DESCRIPTION: Check if an acpi table found in initrd is invalid.
> + *              @signature can be NULL. If it is NULL, the function will check
> + *              if the table signature matches any signature in table_sigs[].
> + *
> + ******************************************************************************/
> +int __init acpi_verify_table(struct cpio_data *file,
 :


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