Merge tag 'acpi-4.12-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull ACPI fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These revert an ACPICA commit from the 4.11 cycle that causes problems
  to happen on some systems and add a protection against possible kernel
  crashes due to table reference counter imbalance.

  Specifics:

   - Revert a 4.11 ACPICA change that made assumptions which are not
     satisfied on some systems and caused the enumeration of resources
     to fail on them (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Add a mechanism to prevent tables from being unmapped prematurely
     due to reference counter overflows (Lv Zheng)"

* tag 'acpi-4.12-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  ACPICA: Tables: Mechanism to handle late stage acpi_get_table() imbalance
  Revert "ACPICA: Disassembler: Enhance resource descriptor detection"

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/acpi/actbl.h b/include/acpi/actbl.h
index d92543f3bbfd..bdc55c0da19c 100644
--- a/include/acpi/actbl.h
+++ b/include/acpi/actbl.h
@@ -374,6 +374,20 @@ struct acpi_table_desc {
 	u16 validation_count;
 };
 
+/*
+ * Maximum value of the validation_count field in struct acpi_table_desc.
+ * When reached, validation_count cannot be changed any more and the table will
+ * be permanently regarded as validated.
+ *
+ * This is to prevent situations in which unbalanced table get/put operations
+ * may cause premature table unmapping in the OS to happen.
+ *
+ * The maximum validation count can be defined to any value, but should be
+ * greater than the maximum number of OS early stage mapping slots to avoid
+ * leaking early stage table mappings to the late stage.
+ */
+#define ACPI_MAX_TABLE_VALIDATIONS          ACPI_UINT16_MAX
+
 /* Masks for Flags field above */
 
 #define ACPI_TABLE_ORIGIN_EXTERNAL_VIRTUAL  (0)	/* Virtual address, external maintained */