Dan Williams 34211cbf94 ACPI / sysfs: fix acpi_get_table() leak / acpi-sysfs denial of service ...

commit 0de0e198bc upstream.

Reading an ACPI table through the /sys/firmware/acpi/tables interface
more than 65,536 times leads to the following log message:

 ACPI Error: Table ffff88033595eaa8, Validation count is zero after increment
  (20170119/tbutils-423)

...and the table being unavailable until the next reboot. Add the
missing acpi_put_table() so the table ->validation_count is decremented
after each read.

Reported-by: Anush Seetharaman <anush.seetharaman@intel.com>
Fixes: 174cc7187e "ACPICA: Tables: Back port acpi_get_table_with_size() ..."
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2017-06-07 12:10:07 +02:00

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