[PATCH] Revert "ACPICA: Interpreter: fix memory leak by using existing buffer"

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael at kernel.org
Mon Feb 8 08:00:58 EST 2021


On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 11:49 AM Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 09:49:37AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > This reverts commit 32cf1a12cad43358e47dac8014379c2f33dfbed4.
> >
> > The 'exisitng buffer' in this case is the firmware provided table, and
> > we should not modify that in place. This fixes a crash on arm64 with
> > initrd table overrides, in which case the DSDT is not mapped with
> > read/write permissions.
> >
> > Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore at intel.com>
> > Cc: Erik Kaneda <erik.kaneda at intel.com>
> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
> > Cc: Len Brown <lenb at kernel.org>
> > Reported-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
>
> Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>

Applied, thanks!

Erik, the upstream will need to sync up with this revert.



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