On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:58 PM Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 05:50, Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > acpi_os_map_cleanup checks map->refcount outside of acpi_ioremap_lock
> > before freeing the map. This creates a race condition the can result
> > in the map being freed more than once.
> > A panic can be caused by running
> >
> > for ((i=0; i<10; i++))
> > do
> > for ((j=0; j<100000; j++))
> > do
> > cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/data/BERT >/dev/null
> > done &
> > done
> >
> > This patch makes sure that only the process that drops the reference
> > to 0 does the freeing.
> >
> > Fixes: b7c1fadd6c2e ("ACPI: Do not use krefs under a mutex in osl.c")
> > Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
> Dmitry
Any more comments on this?
Can this be applied or is more work needed?
Thanks,
Francesco Ruggeri
