Patch "ACPICA: Tables: Fix regression introduced by a too early mechanism enabling" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ACPICA: Tables: Fix regression introduced by a too early mechanism enabling

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     acpica-tables-fix-regression-introduced-by-a-too-early-mechanism-enabling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2ea65321b83539afc1d45c1bea39c55ab42af62b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 13:57:31 +0800
Subject: ACPICA: Tables: Fix regression introduced by a too early mechanism enabling

From: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>

commit 2ea65321b83539afc1d45c1bea39c55ab42af62b upstream.

In the Linux kernel, acpi_get_table() "clones" haven't been fully
balanced by acpi_put_table() invocations.  In upstream ACPICA, due to
the design change, there are also unbalanced acpi_get_table_by_index()
invocations requiring special care.

acpi_get_table() reference counting mismatches may occor due to that
and printing error messages related to them is not useful at this
point.  The strict balanced validation count check should only be
enabled after confirming that all invocations are safe and aligned
with their designed purposes.

Thus this patch removes the error value returned by acpi_tb_get_table()
in that case along with the accompanying error message to fix the
issue.

Fixes: 174cc7187e6f (ACPICA: Tables: Back port acpi_get_table_with_size() and early_acpi_os_unmap_memory() from Linux kernel)
Reported-by: Anush Seetharaman <anush.seetharaman@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
[ rjw: Changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c
@@ -418,11 +418,7 @@ acpi_tb_get_table(struct acpi_table_desc
 
 	table_desc->validation_count++;
 	if (table_desc->validation_count == 0) {
-		ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO,
-			    "Table %p, Validation count is zero after increment\n",
-			    table_desc));
 		table_desc->validation_count--;
-		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_LIMIT);
 	}
 
 	*out_table = table_desc->pointer;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lv.zheng@intel.com are

queue-4.11/revert-acpi-button-remove-lid_init_state-method-mode.patch
queue-4.11/acpica-tables-fix-regression-introduced-by-a-too-early-mechanism-enabling.patch