ACPICA: Refuse to evaluate a method if arguments are missing

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: Refuse to evaluate a method if arguments are missing As reported in [1], a platform firmware update that increased the number of method parameters and forgot to update a least one of its callers, caused ACPICA to crash due to use-after-free. Since this a result of a clear AML issue that arguably cannot be fixed up by the interpreter (it cannot produce missing data out of thin air), address it by making ACPICA refuse to evaluate a method if the caller attempts to pass fewer arguments than expected to it.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b49d224d1830c46e20adce2a239c454cdab426f1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2219e49857ffd6aea1b1ca5214d3270f84623a16
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab1e8491c19eb2ea0fda81ef28e841c7cb6399f5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4305d936abde795c2ef6ba916de8f00a50f64d2d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d547779e72cea9865b732cd45393c4cd02b3598e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18ff4ed6a33a7e3f2097710eacc96bea7696e803
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9e4da550ae196132b990bd77ed3d8f2d9747f87
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fcab2791543924d438e7fa49276d0998b0a069f