ACPICA: Namespace: Fix deadlock triggered by MLC support in dynamic table loading

The new module-level code (MLC) approach invokes MLC on the per-table
basis, but the dynamic loading support of this is incorrect because
of the lock order:

 acpi_ns_evaluate
   acpi_ex_enter_intperter
     acpi_ns_load_table (triggered by Load opcode)
       acpi_ns_exec_module_code_list
         acpi_ex_enter_intperter

The regression is introduced by the following commit:

  Commit: 2785ce8d0da1cac9d8f78615e116cf929e9a9123
  ACPICA Commit: 071eff738c59eda1792ac24b3b688b61691d7e7c
  Subject: ACPICA: Add per-table execution of module-level code

This patch fixes this regression by unlocking the interpreter lock
before invoking MLC.  However, the unlocking is done to the
acpi_ns_load_table(), in which the interpreter lock should be locked
by acpi_ns_parse_table() but it wasn't.

Fixes: 2785ce8d0da1 (ACPICA: Add per-table execution of module-level code)
Reported-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: 4.5+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.5+
[ rjw : Subject ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c
index a1d177d58254cd8e201836481a51b809ec98c628..21932d640a41f6f5b060b8fcb64fbc2d9ac131ab 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exconfig.c
@@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ acpi_ex_add_table(u32 table_index,
 
        /* Add the table to the namespace */
 
+       acpi_ex_exit_interpreter();
        status = acpi_ns_load_table(table_index, parent_node);
+       acpi_ex_enter_interpreter();
        if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
                acpi_ut_remove_reference(obj_desc);
                *ddb_handle = NULL;

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsparse.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsparse.c
index f631a47724f05332644a54e290d9667b4b326010..1783cd7e14467b8f43e9f087884b3b847e6b5492 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsparse.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsparse.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 #include "acparser.h"
 #include "acdispat.h"
 #include "actables.h"
+#include "acinterp.h"
 
 #define _COMPONENT          ACPI_NAMESPACE
 ACPI_MODULE_NAME("nsparse")
@@ -170,6 +171,8 @@ acpi_ns_parse_table(u32 table_index, struct acpi_namespace_node *start_node)
 
        ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(ns_parse_table);
 
+       acpi_ex_enter_interpreter();
+
        /*
         * AML Parse, pass 1
         *
@@ -185,7 +188,7 @@ acpi_ns_parse_table(u32 table_index, struct acpi_namespace_node *start_node)
        status = acpi_ns_one_complete_parse(ACPI_IMODE_LOAD_PASS1,
                                            table_index, start_node);
        if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
-               return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
+               goto error_exit;
        }
 
        /*
@@ -201,8 +204,10 @@ acpi_ns_parse_table(u32 table_index, struct acpi_namespace_node *start_node)
        status = acpi_ns_one_complete_parse(ACPI_IMODE_LOAD_PASS2,
                                            table_index, start_node);
        if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
-               return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
+               goto error_exit;
        }
 
+error_exit:
+       acpi_ex_exit_interpreter();
        return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
 }