ACPI: relax BAD_MADT_ENTRY check to allow LSAPIC variable length string UIDs

ACPI 3.0 appended a variable length UID string to the LAPIC structure
as part of support for > 256 processors.  So the BAD_MADT_ENTRY() sanity
check can no longer compare for equality with a fixed structure length.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Y Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c
index 99761b81db44..0176556aeecc 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 
 #define BAD_MADT_ENTRY(entry, end) (                                        \
                 (!entry) || (unsigned long)entry + sizeof(*entry) > end ||  \
-                ((acpi_table_entry_header *)entry)->length != sizeof(*entry))
+                ((acpi_table_entry_header *)entry)->length < sizeof(*entry))
 
 #define PREFIX                  "ACPI: "