ACPICA: Interpreter: Remove temporary code for External() opcode

ACPICA commit f2d349f8a11efc0f438ad6903564f3a6755dc6b9

The interpreter should never see this opcode (it is used by
disassemblers), so the final implementation is to return an
error.

Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/f2d349f8
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c
index f393de9..7d8ef52 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c
@@ -565,15 +565,14 @@ acpi_ds_create_operand(struct acpi_walk_state *walk_state,
                                        status = AE_OK;
                                } else if (parent_op->common.aml_opcode ==
                                           AML_EXTERNAL_OP) {
-
-                                       /* TBD: May only be temporary */
-
-                                       obj_desc =
-                                           acpi_ut_create_string_object((acpi_size)name_length);
-
-                                       strncpy(obj_desc->string.pointer,
-                                               name_string, name_length);
-                                       status = AE_OK;
+                                       /*
+                                        * This opcode should never appear here. It is used only
+                                        * by AML disassemblers and is surrounded by an If(0)
+                                        * by the ASL compiler.
+                                        *
+                                        * Therefore, if we see it here, it is a serious error.
+                                        */
+                                       status = AE_AML_BAD_OPCODE;
                                } else {
                                        /*
                                         * We just plain didn't find it -- which is a