ACPICA: Warn if packages with invalid references are evaluated

And return an error to avoid NULL pointer access by the caller
Lin Ming's patch avoids corrupted mem access when
BIOS has invalid references included, the handle is now zero
instead of corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utils.c b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
index eba55b7d6c95..44ea60cf21c0 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
@@ -407,6 +407,12 @@ acpi_evaluate_reference(acpi_handle handle,
                         break;
                 }
 
+                if (!element->reference.handle) {
+                        printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX "Invalid reference in"
+                               " package %s\n", pathname);
+                        status = AE_NULL_ENTRY;
+                        break;
+                }
                 /* Get the  acpi_handle. */
 
                 list->handles[i] = element->reference.handle;