This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPICA: Utilities: Fix memory leak in acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject
ACPICA: Remove ACPI_GET_OBJECT_TYPE macro
to the 3.14-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-utilities-fix-memory-leak-in-acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David E. Box" <david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:05:52 +0800
Subject: ACPICA: Utilities: Fix memory leak in acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject
From: "David E. Box" <david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce upstream.
Adds return status check on copy routines to delete the allocated destination
object if either copy fails. Reported by Colin Ian King on bugs.acpica.org,
Bug 1087.
The last applicable commit:
Commit: 3371c19c294a4cb3649aa4e84606be8a1d999e61
Subject: ACPICA: Remove ACPI_GET_OBJECT_TYPE macro
Link: https://bugs.acpica.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087
Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David E. Box <david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/acpica/utcopy.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utcopy.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utcopy.c
@@ -1001,5 +1001,11 @@ acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject(union ac
status = acpi_ut_copy_simple_object(source_desc, *dest_desc);
}
+ /* Delete the allocated object if copy failed */
+
+ if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+ acpi_ut_remove_reference(*dest_desc);
+ }
+
return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/acpica-utilities-fix-memory-leak-in-acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject.patch
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