[PATCH v4 03/18] ACPI / table: Count matched and successfully parsed entries without specifying max entries

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:00:01 +0800, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
> From: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki at linaro.org>
> 
> It is very useful to traverse all available table entries without max
> number of expected entries type. Current acpi_parse_entries()
> implementation gives that feature but it does not count those entries,
> it returns 0 instead, so fix it to count matched and successfully
> entries and return it.
> 
> NOTE: This change has no impact to x86 and ia64 archs since existing code
> checks for error occurrence only (acpi_parse_entries(...,0) < 0).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo at linaro.org>

Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org>

> ---
>  drivers/acpi/tables.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> index 21ae521..b18e45e 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> @@ -225,10 +225,13 @@ acpi_parse_entries(unsigned long table_size,
>  	while (((unsigned long)entry) + sizeof(struct acpi_subtable_header) <
>  	       table_end) {
>  		if (entry->type == entry_id
> -		    && (!max_entries || count++ < max_entries))
> +		    && (!max_entries || count < max_entries)) {
>  			if (handler(entry, table_end))
>  				return -EINVAL;
>  
> +			count++;
> +		}
> +
>  		/*
>  		 * If entry->length is 0, break from this loop to avoid
>  		 * infinite loop.
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
>