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authorLin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>2009-05-21 10:29:28 +0800
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2009-05-27 00:35:51 -0400
commit06366c149232f64c89f513f188ccc6783d0e444f (patch)
tree76abc5567488e105091e9ea55f27f62e0dee5363 /drivers/acpi
parent8c725bf93706db976e9de495579ca625d493e809 (diff)
ACPICA: Fix reference count issues for DdbHandle object
Fix a problem where the DdbHandle could be prematurely deleted, possibly causing a fault. Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c
index 3deb20a126b2..c0348ff9a602 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c
@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ acpi_ex_load_table_op(struct acpi_walk_state *walk_state,
walk_state);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
(void)acpi_ex_unload_table(ddb_handle);
+
+ acpi_ut_remove_reference(ddb_handle);
return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
}
}
@@ -454,6 +456,10 @@ acpi_ex_load_op(union acpi_operand_object *obj_desc,
return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
}
+ /* Remove the reference by added by acpi_ex_store above */
+
+ acpi_ut_remove_reference(ddb_handle);
+
/* Invoke table handler if present */
if (acpi_gbl_table_handler) {
@@ -530,8 +536,5 @@ acpi_status acpi_ex_unload_table(union acpi_operand_object *ddb_handle)
(void)acpi_tb_release_owner_id(table_index);
acpi_tb_set_table_loaded_flag(table_index, FALSE);
- /* Table unloaded, remove a reference to the ddb_handle object */
-
- acpi_ut_remove_reference(ddb_handle);
return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK);
}