ACPI: property: Disregard references in data-only subnode lists

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Data-only subnode links following the ACPI data subnode GUID in a _DSD
package are expected to point to named objects returning _DSD-equivalent
packages.  If a reference to such an object is used in the target field
of any of those links, that object will be evaluated in place (as a
named object) and its return data will be embedded in the outer _DSD
package.

For this reason, it is not expected to see a subnode link with the
target field containing a local reference (that would mean pointing
to a device or another object that cannot be evaluated in place and
therefore cannot return a _DSD-equivalent package).

Accordingly, simplify the code parsing data-only subnode links to
simply print a message when it encounters a local reference in the
target field of one of those links.

Moreover, since acpi_nondev_subnode_data_ok() would only have one
caller after the change above, fold it into that caller.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/CAJZ5v0jVeSrDO6hrZhKgRZrH=FpGD4vNUjFD8hV9WwN9TLHjzQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Stable-dep-of: baf60d5cb8 ("ACPI: property: Do not pass NULL handles to acpi_attach_data()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Rafael J. Wysocki 2025-10-16 12:04:41 -04:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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