From c8d16e27a3601d1cbcdfe657eb4ff5e762019e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:38:54 +0800
Subject: ACPI: fix boot oops regression in thermal

Fix a memory overflow bug when copying
NULL internal package element object to external.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10132

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c
index 76ee766..e08b3fa 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ acpi_ut_get_simple_object_size(union acpi_operand_object *internal_object,
 	 * element -- which is legal)
 	 */
 	if (!internal_object) {
-		*obj_length = 0;
+		*obj_length = sizeof(union acpi_object);
 		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK);
 	}
 
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