Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: acer-wmi: reject missing gaming WMI results

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

Am 30.06.26 um 12:50 schrieb Yousef Alhouseen:

> WMI_gaming_execute_u32_u64() returns success when firmware supplies
> no output object, leaving the caller output untouched.  Gaming getters
> then inspect an uninitialized result value.
>
> Return -ENOMSG for a missing object and -EINVAL for a missing output
> pointer, matching the existing malformed-result handling.

Good catch, but i suspect that the original intention for checking "out"
was to enable callers to ignore any output values by passing "out" as NULL.

Please only return an error if obj is NULL _and_ out is not NULL.

Thanks,
Armin Wolf

> Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 6 +++++-
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> index e0eaaefb13d0..81d354c80cd2 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> @@ -1581,7 +1581,11 @@ static int WMI_gaming_execute_u32_u64(u32 method_id, u32 in, u64 *out)
>   		return -EIO;
>   
>   	obj = result.pointer;
> -	if (obj && out) {
> +	if (!obj) {
> +		ret = -ENOMSG;
> +	} else if (!out) {
> +		ret = -EINVAL;
> +	} else {
>   		switch (obj->type) {
>   		case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER:
>   			*out = obj->integer.value;