This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package()
to the 6.1-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-check-null-return-of-acpi_allocate_zeroed-in-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 9edd0cc41eab339d37e8a22748567035506c9644
Author: Pei Xiao <xiaopei01@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jul 18 14:05:48 2024 +0800
ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package()
[ Upstream commit a5242874488eba2b9062985bf13743c029821330 ]
ACPICA commit 4d4547cf13cca820ff7e0f859ba83e1a610b9fd0
ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() may fail, 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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_4A21A2865B8B0A0D12CAEBEB84708EDDB505@xxxxxx
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbconvert.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dbconvert.c
index 2b84ac093698a..8dbab69320499 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++) {
