From b6a163875935ce8e8e85901a7f2b68f7a314d914 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Renninger Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:06:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ACPICA: Warn if packages with invalid references are evaluated And return an error to avoid NULL pointer access by the caller Lin Ming's patch avoids corrupted mem access when BIOS has invalid references included, the handle is now zero instead of corrupted. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger Signed-off-by: Lin Ming Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/acpi/utils.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utils.c b/drivers/acpi/utils.c index eba55b7d6c..44ea60cf21 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c @@ -407,6 +407,12 @@ acpi_evaluate_reference(acpi_handle handle, break; } + if (!element->reference.handle) { + printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX "Invalid reference in" + " package %s\n", pathname); + status = AE_NULL_ENTRY; + break; + } /* Get the acpi_handle. */ list->handles[i] = element->reference.handle; -- 2.39.5