From: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:54:39 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: ACPICA: Allow multiple backslash prefix in namepaths
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc1~34^2~43
X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d037c5fd7367548191eab2b376a1d08c4ffaf7ff;p=~andy%2Flinux

ACPICA: Allow multiple backslash prefix in namepaths

In a fully qualified namepath, allow multiple backslash prefixes.
This can happen because of the use of a double-backslash in strings
(since backslash is the escape character) causing confusion.
ACPICA BZ 739 Lin Ming.

http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=739

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c b/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c
index b0817e1127b..337fb04e038 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c
@@ -314,9 +314,15 @@ void acpi_ns_get_internal_name_length(struct acpi_namestring_info *info)
 	 *
 	 * strlen() + 1 covers the first name_seg, which has no path separator
 	 */
-	if (acpi_ns_valid_root_prefix(next_external_char[0])) {
+	if (acpi_ns_valid_root_prefix(*next_external_char)) {
 		info->fully_qualified = TRUE;
 		next_external_char++;
+
+		/* Skip redundant root_prefix, like \\_SB.PCI0.SBRG.EC0 */
+
+		while (acpi_ns_valid_root_prefix(*next_external_char)) {
+			next_external_char++;
+		}
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * Handle Carat prefixes