Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED in acpi_db_convert_to_package ACPICA commit 4d4547cf13cca820ff7e0f859ba83e1a610b9fd0

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 8:12 AM <xiaopeitux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Pei Xiao <xiaopei01@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED may fails, elements might be null and will cause
> null pointer dereference later.
>
> Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/4d4547cf
> Signed-off-by: Pei Xiao <xiaopei01@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/acpica/dbconvert.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbconvert.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbconvert.c
> index 2b84ac093698..8dbab6932049 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbconvert.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbconvert.c
> @@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ acpi_status acpi_db_convert_to_package(char *string, union acpi_object *object)
>         elements =
>             ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED(DB_DEFAULT_PKG_ELEMENTS *
>                                  sizeof(union acpi_object));
> +       if (!elements)
> +               return (AE_NO_MEMORY);
>
>         this = string;
>         for (i = 0; i < (DB_DEFAULT_PKG_ELEMENTS - 1); i++) {
> --

Applied (with edited subject and changelog) as 6.12 material, thanks!