linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 025/100] acpi/x86: ignore unspecified bit positions in the ACPI global lock field

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Message-Id: <20200422095027.301714732@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:55:55 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 025/100] acpi/x86: ignore unspecified bit positions in the ACPI global lock field

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>

commit ecb9c790999fd6c5af0f44783bd0217f0b89ec2b upstream.

The value in "new" is constructed from "old" such that all bits defined
as reserved by the ACPI spec[1] are left untouched. But if those bits
do not happen to be all zero, "new < 3" will not evaluate to true.

The firmware of the laptop(s) Medion MD63490 / Akoya P15648 comes with
garbage inside the "FACS" ACPI table. The starting value is
old=0x4944454d, therefore new=0x4944454e, which is >= 3. Mask off
the reserved bits.

[1] https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_2.pdf

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206553
Cc: All applicable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
@@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@ int __acpi_acquire_global_lock(unsigned
 		new = (((old & ~0x3) + 2) + ((old >> 1) & 0x1));
 		val = cmpxchg(lock, old, new);
 	} while (unlikely (val != old));
-	return (new < 3) ? -1 : 0;
+	return ((new & 0x3) < 3) ? -1 : 0;
 }

 int __acpi_release_global_lock(unsigned int *lock)