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-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c23
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c
index e973e311f856..1f0c28ba50df 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ acpi_evaluate_object_typed(acpi_handle handle,
acpi_object_type return_type)
{
acpi_status status;
- u8 must_free = FALSE;
+ u8 free_buffer_on_error = FALSE;
ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(acpi_evaluate_object_typed);
@@ -95,14 +95,13 @@ acpi_evaluate_object_typed(acpi_handle handle,
}
if (return_buffer->length == ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER) {
- must_free = TRUE;
+ free_buffer_on_error = TRUE;
}
/* Evaluate the object */
- status =
- acpi_evaluate_object(handle, pathname, external_params,
- return_buffer);
+ status = acpi_evaluate_object(handle, pathname,
+ external_params, return_buffer);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
}
@@ -135,11 +134,15 @@ acpi_evaluate_object_typed(acpi_handle handle,
pointer)->type),
acpi_ut_get_type_name(return_type)));
- if (must_free) {
-
- /* Caller used ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, free the return buffer */
-
- ACPI_FREE_BUFFER(*return_buffer);
+ if (free_buffer_on_error) {
+ /*
+ * Free a buffer created via ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER.
+ * Note: We use acpi_os_free here because acpi_os_allocate was used
+ * to allocate the buffer. This purposefully bypasses the
+ * (optionally enabled) allocation tracking mechanism since we
+ * only want to track internal allocations.
+ */
+ acpi_os_free(return_buffer->pointer);
return_buffer->pointer = NULL;
}
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