ACPI / sysfs: fix acpi_get_table() leak / acpi-sysfs denial of service
Reading an ACPI table through the /sys/firmware/acpi/tables interface more than 65,536 times leads to the following log message: ACPI Error: Table ffff88033595eaa8, Validation count is zero after increment (20170119/tbutils-423) ...and the table being unavailable until the next reboot. Add the missing acpi_put_table() so the table ->validation_count is decremented after each read. Reported-by: Anush Seetharaman <anush.seetharaman@intel.com> Fixes: 174cc718 "ACPICA: Tables: Back port acpi_get_table_with_size() ..." Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: 4.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.10+ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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