Commit d2e7d079 authored by David E. Box's avatar David E. Box Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki

ACPICA: Operation region support: Never free the handler "context" pointer.

This change removes some dangerous code that attempts to free the
handler context pointer in some (rare) circumstances. The owner of
the handler owns this pointer and the ACPICA code should never
touch it. Although not seen to be an issue in any kernel, it did
show up as a problem under AcpiExec. Also, set the internal storage
field for the context pointer to zero when the region is deactivated,
simply for sanity. David Box.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid E. Box <david.e.box@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent a2fd4b4b
......@@ -217,16 +217,11 @@ acpi_ev_address_space_dispatch(union acpi_operand_object *region_obj,
if (!(region_obj->region.flags & AOPOBJ_SETUP_COMPLETE)) {
region_obj->region.flags |= AOPOBJ_SETUP_COMPLETE;
if (region_obj2->extra.region_context) {
/* The handler for this region was already installed */
ACPI_FREE(region_context);
} else {
/*
* Save the returned context for use in all accesses to
* this particular region
* the handler for this particular region
*/
if (!(region_obj2->extra.region_context)) {
region_obj2->extra.region_context =
region_context;
}
......@@ -402,6 +397,14 @@ acpi_ev_detach_region(union acpi_operand_object *region_obj,
handler_obj->address_space.
context, region_context);
/*
* region_context should have been released by the deactivate
* operation. We don't need access to it anymore here.
*/
if (region_context) {
*region_context = NULL;
}
/* Init routine may fail, Just ignore errors */
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
......
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