Re: [PATCH] Revert "ACPICA: Interpreter: fix memory leak by using existing buffer"

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 11:49 AM Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 09:49:37AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > This reverts commit 32cf1a12cad43358e47dac8014379c2f33dfbed4.
> >
> > The 'exisitng buffer' in this case is the firmware provided table, and
> > we should not modify that in place. This fixes a crash on arm64 with
> > initrd table overrides, in which case the DSDT is not mapped with
> > read/write permissions.
> >
> > Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Erik Kaneda <erik.kaneda@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!

Erik, the upstream will need to sync up with this revert.