This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ACPICA: Namespace: Properly null terminate objects detached from a 
namespace node

to the 3.16-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     
acpica-namespace-properly-null-terminate-objects-detached-from-a-namespace-node.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From e23d9b8297546c6ceb7e70771e4915f2a41733cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David E. Box" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:06:24 +0800
Subject: ACPICA: Namespace: Properly null terminate objects detached from a 
namespace node

From: "David E. Box" <[email protected]>

commit e23d9b8297546c6ceb7e70771e4915f2a41733cd upstream.

Fixes a bug exposed by an ACPICA unit test around the
acpi_attach_data()/acpi_detach_data() APIs where the failure to null
terminate a detached object led to the creation of a circular linked list
(and infinite looping) when the object is reattached.

Reported in acpica bugzilla #1063

Link: https://bugs.acpica.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1063
Signed-off-by: David E. Box <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/acpi/acpica/nsobject.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsobject.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsobject.c
@@ -239,6 +239,17 @@ void acpi_ns_detach_object(struct acpi_n
                }
        }
 
+       /*
+        * Detach the object from any data objects (which are still held by
+        * the namespace node)
+        */
+
+       if (obj_desc->common.next_object &&
+           ((obj_desc->common.next_object)->common.type ==
+            ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_DATA)) {
+               obj_desc->common.next_object = NULL;
+       }
+
        /* Reset the node type to untyped */
 
        node->type = ACPI_TYPE_ANY;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-3.16/acpica-utilities-fix-memory-leak-in-acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject.patch
queue-3.16/acpica-namespace-properly-null-terminate-objects-detached-from-a-namespace-node.patch
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