ACPICA: Add a mechanism to escape infinite AML While() loops

Add a loop counter to force exit from AML While loops if the
count becomes too large. This can occur in poorly written AML
when the hardware does not respond within a while loop and the
loop does not implement a timeout. The maximum loop count is
configurable. A new exception code is returned when a loop is
broken, AE_AML_INFINITE_LOOP.  Bob Moore, Alexey Starikovskiy.

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/acpi/aclocal.h b/include/acpi/aclocal.h
index ecab527cf78e..0323fa9aa3e6 100644
--- a/include/acpi/aclocal.h
+++ b/include/acpi/aclocal.h
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ struct acpi_control_state {
         union acpi_parse_object *predicate_op;
         u8 *aml_predicate_start;        /* Start of if/while predicate */
         u8 *package_end;        /* End of if/while block */
+        u32 loop_count;         /* While() loop counter */
 };
 
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