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Vegard Nossum 25928deeb1 ACPICA: Always create namespace nodes using acpi_ns_create_node()
ACPICA commit 29da9a2a3f5b2c60420893e5c6309a0586d7a329

ACPI is allocating an object using kmalloc(), but then frees it
using kmem_cache_free(<"Acpi-Namespace" kmem_cache>).

This is wrong and can lead to boot failures manifesting like this:

    hpet0: 3 comparators, 64-bit 100.000000 MHz counter
    clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc-early
    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000003ffe0018
    #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
    #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
    PGD 0 P4D 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
    CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0+ #211
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
    RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc+0x70/0x1d0
    Code: 00 00 4c 8b 45 00 65 49 8b 50 08 65 4c 03 05 6f cc e7 7e 4d 8b
20 4d 85 e4 0f 84 3d 01 00 00 8b 45 20 48 8b 7d 00 48 8d 4a 01 <49> 8b
   1c 04 4c 89 e0 65 48 0f c7 0f 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 c5 8b 45 20
    RSP: 0000:ffffc90000013df8 EFLAGS: 00010206
    RAX: 0000000000000018 RBX: ffffffff81c49200 RCX: 0000000000000002
    RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000dc0 RDI: 000000000002b300
    RBP: ffff88803e403d00 R08: ffff88803ec2b300 R09: 0000000000000001
    R10: 0000000000000dc0 R11: 0000000000000006 R12: 000000003ffe0000
    R13: ffffffff8110a583 R14: 0000000000000dc0 R15: ffffffff81c49a80
    FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88803ec00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 000000003ffe0018 CR3: 0000000001c0a001 CR4: 00000000003606f0
    DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
    DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
    Call Trace:
     __trace_define_field+0x33/0xa0
     event_trace_init+0xeb/0x2b4
     tracer_init_tracefs+0x60/0x195
     ? register_tracer+0x1e7/0x1e7
     do_one_initcall+0x74/0x160
     kernel_init_freeable+0x190/0x1f0
     ? rest_init+0x9a/0x9a
     kernel_init+0x5/0xf6
     ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
    CR2: 000000003ffe0018
    ---[ end trace 707efa023f2ee960 ]---
    RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc+0x70/0x1d0

Bisection leads to unrelated changes in slab; Vlastimil Babka
suggests an unrelated layout or slab merge change merely exposed
the underlying bug.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4dc93ff8-f86e-f4c9-ebeb-6d3153a78d03@oracle.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a1461e21-c744-767d-6dfc-6641fd3e3ce2@siemens.com
Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/29da9a2a
Fixes: f79c8e4136 ("ACPICA: Namespace: simplify creation of the initial/default namespace")
Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Diagnosed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Diagnosed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Kaneda <erik.kaneda@intel.com>
Cc: 5.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.10+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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