From: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:36:59 -0700
Subject: ACPICA: debugger: remove leading whitespaces when converting a string
to a buffer
Patch-mainline: v5.5-rc1
Git-commit: 45abdc9903e9eb75f754dd2faeaa1943b1df4806
References: jsc#SLE-16407
ACPICA commit 1b7228072f254a5b02625586ff7d561757b7fc2d
By removing leading whitespaces, the conversion computes the
correct number of elements in a given buffer or field encoding
that contains leading whitespaces.
Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/1b722807
Signed-off-by: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
---
drivers/acpi/acpica/dbconvert.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbconvert.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbconvert.c
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ acpi_db_convert_to_buffer(char *string,
u8 *buffer;
acpi_status status;
+ /* Skip all preceding white space */
+
+ acpi_ut_remove_whitespace(&string);
+
/* Generate the final buffer length */
for (i = 0, length = 0; string[i];) {