From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Lv Zheng <zetalog@gmail.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ACPICA: Tables: Fix regression introduced by a too early mechanism enabling
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:00:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4gtYzkeUL-Ou8bap5Sye=1Tq2PmuhZM04nFPwdjmCwCgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1493171393-1825-1-git-send-email-lv.zheng@intel.com>
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> wrote:
> In the Linux kernel side, acpi_get_table() hasn't been fully balanced by
> acpi_put_table() invocations. So it is not a good timing to report errors.
> The strict balanced validation count check should only be enabled after
> confirming that all kernel side invocations are safe.
We've been living with this bug for 7 years, let's just go fix all
acpi_get_table() invocations to make sure they have a corresponding
acpi_put_table().
>
> Thus this patch removes the fatal error but leaves the error report to
> indicate the leak so that developers can notice the required engineering
> change. Reported by Dan Williams, fixed by Lv Zheng.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c
> index 5a968a7..9e7d95cf 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c
> @@ -422,7 +422,6 @@ acpi_tb_get_table(struct acpi_table_desc *table_desc,
> "Table %p, Validation count is zero after increment\n",
> table_desc));
> table_desc->validation_count--;
> - return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_LIMIT);
If you want to leave the error report turn it into a WARN_ON_ONCE() so
it doesn't keep triggering, but I'd rather we just focus on the
missing acpi_put_table() calls.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-26 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-26 1:49 [RFC PATCH] ACPICA: Tables: Fix regression introduced by a too early mechanism enabling Lv Zheng
2017-04-26 5:00 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2017-04-26 5:15 ` Zheng, Lv
2017-04-26 14:13 ` Dan Williams
2017-04-26 15:34 ` Dan Williams
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