Re: slub freelist issue / BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000003ffe0018

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 6/11/20 3:40 AM, Kaneda, Erik wrote:
> We'll take this patch for ACPICA and it will be in the next release.
> 
> Rafael, do you want to take this as a part of the next rc? Or should we wait for the next merge window?

IMHO this should rather be fixed in 5.8 with CC stable, not next merge window.

> Thanks,
> Erik
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c
>> index 2566e2d4c7803..b76bbab917941 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c
>> @@ -98,14 +98,12 @@ acpi_status acpi_ns_root_initialize(void)
>>                   * predefined names are at the root level. It is much easier to
>>                   * just create and link the new node(s) here.
>>                   */
>> -               new_node =
>> -                   ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED(sizeof(struct
>> acpi_namespace_node));
>> +               new_node = acpi_ns_create_node(*ACPI_CAST_PTR (u32,
>> init_val->name));
>>                  if (!new_node) {
>>                          status = AE_NO_MEMORY;
>>                          goto unlock_and_exit;
>>                  }
>> 
>> -               ACPI_COPY_NAMESEG(new_node->name.ascii, init_val->name);
>>                  new_node->descriptor_type = ACPI_DESC_TYPE_NAMED;
>>                  new_node->type = init_val->type;
>> 
>> 
>> Vegard
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