Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: property: Fix error handling in acpi_init_properties()

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 11:12 PM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> buf.pointer, memory for storing _DSD data and nodes, was released if either
> parsing properties or, as recently added, attaching data node tags failed.
> Alas, properties were still left pointing to this memory if parsing
> properties were successful but attaching data node tags failed.
>
> Fix this by separating error handling for the two, and leaving properties
> intact if data nodes cannot be tagged for a reason or another.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> Fixes: 1d52f10917a7 ("ACPI: property: Tie data nodes to acpi handles")
> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> Hi Rafael,
>
> This should fix the immediate problem. It needs to be figured out why data
> node tagging doesn't work sometimes but that can wait.

Applied, but ->

>  drivers/acpi/property.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/property.c b/drivers/acpi/property.c
> index 9711482014a6..201a5a9b2671 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/property.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/property.c
> @@ -566,13 +566,13 @@ void acpi_init_properties(struct acpi_device *adev)
>                                         &adev->data, acpi_fwnode_handle(adev)))
>                 adev->data.pointer = buf.pointer;
>
> -       if (!adev->data.pointer ||
> -           !acpi_tie_nondev_subnodes(&adev->data)) {
> -               acpi_untie_nondev_subnodes(&adev->data);
> +       if (!adev->data.pointer) {
>                 acpi_handle_debug(adev->handle, "Invalid _DSD data, skipping\n");
>                 ACPI_FREE(buf.pointer);
> +       } else {
> +               if (!acpi_tie_nondev_subnodes(&adev->data))
> +                       acpi_untie_nondev_subnodes(&adev->data);
>         }
> -

-> dropped this empty line removal which is unrelated to the fix (and
the empty line is there on purpose).

>   out:
>         if (acpi_of && !adev->flags.of_compatible_ok)
>                 acpi_handle_info(adev->handle,
> --

Please note that I will not be able to push things after Thursday this
week and throughout the next week, so either this goes in on Thursday
or it will miss 5.20, in which case sorry about that.  We'll see.

Thanks!