ACK: [PATCH] acpi: method: skip over bad method_handle and failed message type

Alex Hung alex.hung at canonical.com
Thu Jul 4 17:41:46 UTC 2019


On 2019-07-04 10:15 a.m., Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> 
> When fetching the method_handle and the message type there are
> issues warning about failures but no real error handling. This
> can lead to an uninitialized method_handle being passed into
> AcpiGetType that can cause an uninitialized pointer read. Fix
> these failures by continuing on to the next method inthe list.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized pointer read")
> Fixes: e2a21f8d75d8 ("acpi: method: skip scope names in method_evaluate_method")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>  src/acpi/method/method.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/acpi/method/method.c b/src/acpi/method/method.c
> index eeb9c7fa..787e3438 100644
> --- a/src/acpi/method/method.c
> +++ b/src/acpi/method/method.c
> @@ -410,10 +410,12 @@ static int method_evaluate_method(fwts_framework *fw,
>  				status = AcpiGetHandle (NULL, method_name, &method_handle);
>  				if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
>  					fwts_warning(fw, "Failed to get handle for object %s.", name);
> +					continue;
>  				}
>  				status = AcpiGetType(method_handle, &type);
>  				if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
>  					fwts_warning(fw, "Failed to get object type for %s.",name);
> +					continue;
>  				}
>  
>  				if (type == ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_SCOPE)
> 

Acked-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>



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