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[v1] ACPICA: Refuse to evaluate a method if arguments are missing

Message ID 5909446.DvuYhMxLoT@rjwysocki.net
State New
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Series [v1] ACPICA: Refuse to evaluate a method if arguments are missing | expand

Commit Message

Rafael J. Wysocki June 18, 2025, 12:17 p.m. UTC 
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

As reported in [1], a platform firmware update that increased the number
of method parameters and forgot to update a least one of its callers,
caused ACPICA to crash due to use-after-free.

Since this a result of a clear AML issue that arguably cannot be fixed
up by the interpreter (it cannot produce missing data out of thin air),
address it by making ACPICA refuse to evaluate a method if the caller
attempts to pass fewer arguments than expected to it.

Closes: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/issues/1027 [1]
Reported-by: Peter Williams <peter@newton.cx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
---

This is an exception as it fixes a kernel crash on multiple platforms
affected by the defective platform firmware update.

I will take care of submitting an equivalent change to upstream
ACPICA later.

---
 drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
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--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c
@@ -483,6 +483,13 @@ 
 		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_NULL_OBJECT);
 	}
 
+	if (this_walk_state->num_operands < obj_desc->method.param_count) {
+		ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO, "Missing argument for method [%4.4s]",
+			    acpi_ut_get_node_name(method_node)));
+
+		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_AML_UNINITIALIZED_ARG);
+	}
+
 	/* Init for new method, possibly wait on method mutex */
 
 	status =