ACK: [PATCH] lib: fwts_acpi_tables: fix segfault when tables fail to load (LP: #1452201)

ivanhu ivan.hu at canonical.com
Wed Dec 16 06:21:41 UTC 2015



On 2015年12月15日 17:37, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> Running any ACPI table related test on a ppc64le will trigger a segfault
> because ACPI tables cannot be loaded from memory, from /sys/firmware or
> from file.  There are a few tidy-ups that need to be fixed to avoid this
> situation:
>
> 1. fwts_acpi_load_tables_from_file_generic must check that the path
>     provided is not null
> 2. it also needs to account for tables that are valid rather than
>     total count of files found in the directory being scanned for ACPI
>     tables
> 3. fwts_acpi_load_tables_from_file also musg check that the
>     fw->acpi_table_path is not null before trying to load tables from
>     this path
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>   src/lib/src/fwts_acpi_tables.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/lib/src/fwts_acpi_tables.c b/src/lib/src/fwts_acpi_tables.c
> index 56f4c6b..42aefcc 100644
> --- a/src/lib/src/fwts_acpi_tables.c
> +++ b/src/lib/src/fwts_acpi_tables.c
> @@ -772,19 +772,21 @@ static int fwts_acpi_load_tables_from_file_generic(
>   	int *count)
>   {
>   	struct dirent **dir_entries;
> -	int i;
> +	int i, n;
> +
> +	*count = 0;
> +	if (!acpi_table_path)
> +		return FWTS_ERROR;
>
>   	/*
>    	 * Read in directory in alphabetical name sorted order
>   	 * to ensure the tables are always loaded into memory
>   	 * in some form of deterministic order
>   	 */
> -	if ((*count = scandir(acpi_table_path, &dir_entries, 0, alphasort)) < 0) {
> -		*count = 0;
> +	if ((n = scandir(acpi_table_path, &dir_entries, 0, alphasort)) < 0)
>   		return FWTS_ERROR;
> -	}
>
> -	for (i = 0; i < *count; i++) {
> +	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
>   		/* Ignore . directories */
>   		if (dir_entries[i]->d_name[0] == '.')
>   			continue;
> @@ -829,6 +831,8 @@ static int fwts_acpi_load_tables_from_file_generic(
>   						name[4] = '\0';
>   					}
>
> +					(*count)++;
> +
>   					if (!strncmp(name, "XSDT", 4) || !strncmp(name, "RSDT", 4)) {
>   						/*
>   						 * For XSDT and RSDT we don't bother loading at this point.
> @@ -866,6 +870,9 @@ static int fwts_acpi_load_tables_from_file(fwts_framework *fw)
>   {
>   	int count;
>
> +	if (!fw->acpi_table_path)
> +		return FWTS_ERROR;
> +
>   	fwts_acpi_load_tables_from_file_generic(fw, fw->acpi_table_path, ".dat", &count);
>   	if (count == 0) {
>   		fwts_log_error(fw, "Could not find any APCI tables in directory '%s'.\n", fw->acpi_table_path);
>

Acked-by: Ivan Hu <ivan.hu at canonical.com>



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