Re: [PATCH] ACPI / PM: Fix error code path for power resources initialization

[Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>]

2013/06/18 7:37, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>
> Commit 781d737 (ACPI: Drop power resources driver) introduced a
> bug in the power resources initialization error code path causing
> a NULL pointer to be referenced in acpi_release_power_resource()
> if there's an error triggering a jump to the 'err' label in
> acpi_add_power_resource().  This happens because the list_node
> field of struct acpi_power_resource has not been initialized yet
> at this point and doing a list_del() on it is a bad idea.
>
> To prevent this problem from occuring, initialize the list_node
> field of struct acpi_power_resource upfront.
>
> Reported-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Cc: 3.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org>

Acked-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu

> ---
>   drivers/acpi/power.c |    1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/power.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/power.c
> +++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/power.c
> @@ -882,6 +882,7 @@ int acpi_add_power_resource(acpi_handle
>   				ACPI_STA_DEFAULT);
>   	mutex_init(&resource->resource_lock);
>   	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&resource->dependent);
> +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&resource->list_node);
>   	resource->name = device->pnp.bus_id;
>   	strcpy(acpi_device_name(device), ACPI_POWER_DEVICE_NAME);
>   	strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_POWER_CLASS);
>
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