ACPICA: Add support for zero-length buffer-to-string conversions

Allow zero length strings during interpreter buffer-to-string
conversions. For example, during the ToDecimalString and
ToHexString operaters, as well as implicit conversions. Fiodor
Suietov.  ACPICA BZ 585.

http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=585Signed-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>

drivers/acpi/executer/exconvrt.c

@@ -512,9 +512,14 @@ acpi_ex_convert_to_string(union acpi_operand_object * obj_desc,
 		/*
 		 * Create a new string object and string buffer
 		 * (-1 because of extra separator included in string_length from above)
+		 * Allow creation of zero-length strings from zero-length buffers.
 		 */
+		if (string_length) {
+			string_length--;
+		}
+
 		return_desc = acpi_ut_create_string_object((acpi_size)
-							   (string_length - 1));
+							   string_length);
 		if (!return_desc) {
 			return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_NO_MEMORY);
 		}
@@ -537,7 +542,9 @@ acpi_ex_convert_to_string(union acpi_operand_object * obj_desc,
 		 * Null terminate the string
 		 * (overwrites final comma/space from above)
 		 */
+		if (obj_desc->buffer.length) {
 			new_buf--;
+		}
 		*new_buf = 0;
 		break;