I believe that the rationale for this is that at that point in the code, it is *guaranteed* that there is at least one operand; therefore the -1 would always be valid. In the end, we just deleted that call to acpi_db_display_argument_object. I don't know if this change has made it into Linux yet. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Seraphime Kirkovski [mailto:kirkseraph@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 3:00 PM > To: devel@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Moore, Robert <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>; Zheng, Lv > <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>; Wysocki, Rafael J <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>; > lenb@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Seraphime Kirkovski > <kirkseraph@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [PATCH] acpi: acpica: dsutils: fix an off-by-one index > > This was detected by UBSAN. > Fix it by checking whether there are any arguments prior to indexing the > array. > > [ 0.222775] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in > drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c:640:16 > [ 0.222778] index -1 is out of range for type > 'acpi_operand_object*[9]' > [ 0.222781] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.12.0-rc4- > dirty #32 > [ 0.222782] Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook 2560p/162B, > BIOS 68SSU Ver. F.02 07/26/2011 > [ 0.222783] Call Trace: > [ 0.222790] dump_stack+0x4e/0x78 > [ 0.222792] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x40 > [ 0.222794] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x68/0x80 > [ 0.222795] ? perf_trace_sys_exit+0x12d/0x170 > [ 0.222797] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x1e6/0x2e0 > [ 0.222800] acpi_ds_create_operand+0x20b/0x2a6 > [ 0.222801] acpi_ds_eval_data_object_operands+0x58/0x16c > [ 0.222803] acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x424/0x582 > [ 0.222805] acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x730/0x792 > [ 0.222807] acpi_ps_parse_aml+0xac/0x2eb > [ 0.222809] acpi_ds_execute_arguments+0x129/0x14d > [ 0.222810] acpi_ds_get_buffer_arguments+0x62/0x65 > [ 0.222812] acpi_ns_init_one_object+0xe0/0x13b > [ 0.222814] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0x121/0x1ef > [ 0.222815] ? acpi_ns_exec_module_code_list+0x1b7/0x1b7 > [ 0.222817] ? acpi_ns_exec_module_code_list+0x1b7/0x1b7 > [ 0.222818] acpi_walk_namespace+0xa0/0xd5 > [ 0.222820] acpi_ns_initialize_objects+0x37/0x5a > [ 0.222823] acpi_initialize_objects+0x34/0x54 > [ 0.222824] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x2d/0x2d > [ 0.222826] acpi_init+0xcb/0x34d > [ 0.222828] ? __class_create+0x54/0x80 > [ 0.222830] ? fbmem_init+0x7f/0xd4 > [ 0.222831] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x2d/0x2d > [ 0.222832] do_one_initcall+0x52/0x1d0 > [ 0.222835] kernel_init_freeable+0x314/0x3a6 > [ 0.222837] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80 > [ 0.222838] kernel_init+0xf/0x120 > [ 0.222839] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80 > [ 0.222841] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 > > Signed-off-by: Seraphime Kirkovski <kirkseraph@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c | 9 ++++----- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c > b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c index 406edec20de7..b66eddd3df6e 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c > +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c > @@ -636,11 +636,10 @@ acpi_ds_create_operand(struct acpi_walk_state > *walk_state, > ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_DISPATCH, > "Argument previously created, already > stacked\n")); > > - acpi_db_display_argument_object(walk_state-> > - operands[walk_state-> > - num_operands - > - 1], > - walk_state); > + if (walk_state->num_operands) > + acpi_db_display_argument_object(walk_state-> > + operands[walk_state->num_operands - 1], > + walk_state); > > /* > * Use value that was already previously returned > -- > 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html