ACPICA: Fix namespace race condition
authorDana Myers <dana.myers@oracle.com>
Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:09:31 +0000 (09:09 +0800)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:47:41 +0000 (23:47 -0500)
Fixes a race condition between method execution and namespace
walks that can possibly fault. Problem was apparently introduced
in version 20100528 as a result of a performance optimization
that reduces the number of namespace walks upon method exit
by using the delete_namespace_subtree function instead of the
delete_namespace_by_owner function used previously. Bug is in
the delete_namespace_subtree function.

Signed-off-by: Dana Myers <dana.myers@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/acpica/nsalloc.c

index 1e5ff80..222a23e 100644 (file)
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ void acpi_ns_delete_namespace_subtree(struct acpi_namespace_node *parent_node)
 {
        struct acpi_namespace_node *child_node = NULL;
        u32 level = 1;
+       acpi_status status;
 
        ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(ns_delete_namespace_subtree);
 
@@ -348,6 +349,13 @@ void acpi_ns_delete_namespace_subtree(struct acpi_namespace_node *parent_node)
                return_VOID;
        }
 
+       /* Lock namespace for possible update */
+
+       status = acpi_ut_acquire_mutex(ACPI_MTX_NAMESPACE);
+       if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+               return_VOID;
+       }
+
        /*
         * Traverse the tree of objects until we bubble back up
         * to where we started.
@@ -397,6 +405,7 @@ void acpi_ns_delete_namespace_subtree(struct acpi_namespace_node *parent_node)
                }
        }
 
+       (void)acpi_ut_release_mutex(ACPI_MTX_NAMESPACE);
        return_VOID;
 }