linux-kernel - [PATCH] Fix segfault when printing battery status

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Date:	Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:49:24 +0100
From:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
To:	lenb@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, astarikovskiy@...e.de,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix segfault when printing battery status

cat /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:19/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT1/status

This leads to a stacktrace as acpi_battery_get_property() returns 0 for a 
case where it does not set val->intval. These value is used as an array 
index in drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c::power_supply_show_property(). 
I had a situation where the value was 4096 which caused a problem as the 
array only has 5 entries.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
index 192c244..2e8e790 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ static int acpi_battery_get_property(struct power_supply *psy,
 			val->intval = POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS_CHARGING;
 		else if (battery->state == 0)
 			val->intval = POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS_FULL;
+		else
+			val->intval = POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS_UNKNOWN;
 		break;
 	case POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_PRESENT:
 		val->intval = acpi_battery_present(battery);

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