ACPI: Fix crash on ASUS laptops

This patch fixes the crash I experienced in 2.6.29-rc2.
Tested on ASUS M50vm.

Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
index a2b82c9..5c2f5d3 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void)
                saved_ec = kmalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_ec), GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!saved_ec)
                        return -ENOMEM;
-               memcpy(&saved_ec, boot_ec, sizeof(saved_ec));
+               memcpy(saved_ec, boot_ec, sizeof(*saved_ec));
        /* fall through */
        }
        /* This workaround is needed only on some broken machines,