ACPICA: Allow multiple backslash prefix in namepaths

In a fully qualified namepath, allow multiple backslash prefixes.
This can happen because of the use of a double-backslash in strings
(since backslash is the escape character) causing confusion.
ACPICA BZ 739 Lin Ming.

http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=739

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

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c b/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c
index b0817e1127b1..337fb04e0388 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c
@@ -314,9 +314,15 @@ void acpi_ns_get_internal_name_length(struct acpi_namestring_info *info)
          *
          * strlen() + 1 covers the first name_seg, which has no path separator
          */
-        if (acpi_ns_valid_root_prefix(next_external_char[0])) {
+        if (acpi_ns_valid_root_prefix(*next_external_char)) {
                 info->fully_qualified = TRUE;
                 next_external_char++;
+
+                /* Skip redundant root_prefix, like \\_SB.PCI0.SBRG.EC0 */
+
+                while (acpi_ns_valid_root_prefix(*next_external_char)) {
+                        next_external_char++;
+                }
         } else {
                 /*
                  * Handle Carat prefixes