This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPICA: ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED in acpi_db_display_objects
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
acpica-acpica-check-null-return-of-acpi_allocate_zer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b482f198a07a3124344881e1ab9edb0487c36bdb
Author: void0red <30990023+void0red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 5 15:57:57 2023 +0200
ACPICA: ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED in acpi_db_display_objects
[ Upstream commit ae5a0eccc85fc960834dd66e3befc2728284b86c ]
ACPICA commit 0d5f467d6a0ba852ea3aad68663cbcbd43300fd4
ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED may fails, object_info might be null and will cause
null pointer dereference later.
Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/0d5f467d
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbnames.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbnames.c
index 992bd7b92540d..49afba8c916a7 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbnames.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbnames.c
@@ -571,6 +571,9 @@ acpi_status acpi_db_display_objects(char *obj_type_arg, char *display_count_arg)
object_info =
ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED(sizeof(struct acpi_object_info));
+ if (!object_info)
+ return (AE_NO_MEMORY);
+
/* Walk the namespace from the root */
(void)acpi_walk_namespace(ACPI_TYPE_ANY, ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT,
