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-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmethod.c23
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmethod.c b/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmethod.c
index 651f2b68531b..e348db0e541e 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmethod.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmethod.c
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ acpi_ds_restart_control_method(struct acpi_walk_state *walk_state,
union acpi_operand_object *return_desc)
{
acpi_status status;
+ int same_as_implicit_return;
ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE_PTR(ds_restart_control_method, walk_state);
@@ -402,6 +403,11 @@ acpi_ds_restart_control_method(struct acpi_walk_state *walk_state,
if (return_desc) {
+ /* Is the implicit return object the same as the return desc? */
+
+ same_as_implicit_return =
+ (walk_state->implicit_return_obj == return_desc);
+
/* Are we actually going to use the return value? */
if (walk_state->return_used) {
@@ -422,18 +428,23 @@ acpi_ds_restart_control_method(struct acpi_walk_state *walk_state,
}
/*
- * The following code is the
- * optional support for a so-called "implicit return". Some AML code
- * assumes that the last value of the method is "implicitly" returned
- * to the caller. Just save the last result as the return value.
+ * The following code is the optional support for the so-called
+ * "implicit return". Some AML code assumes that the last value of the
+ * method is "implicitly" returned to the caller, in the absence of an
+ * explicit return value.
+ *
+ * Just save the last result of the method as the return value.
+ *
* NOTE: this is optional because the ASL language does not actually
* support this behavior.
*/
else if (!acpi_ds_do_implicit_return
- (return_desc, walk_state, FALSE)) {
+ (return_desc, walk_state, FALSE)
+ || same_as_implicit_return) {
/*
* Delete the return value if it will not be used by the
- * calling method
+ * calling method or remove one reference if the explicit return
+ * is the same as the implicit return value.
*/
acpi_ut_remove_reference(return_desc);
}