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The ACPI custom_method debugfs interface is security-sensitive and
concurrent access to it is broken [1].
Moreover, the recipe for preparing a customized version of a given
control method has changed at one point due to ACPICA changes, which
has not been reflected in its documentation, so whoever used it before
has had to adapt and it had gone unnoticed for a long time.
This interface was a bad idea to start with and its implementation is
fragile at the design level. It's been always conceptually questionable,
problematic from the security standpoint and implemented poorly.
Patches fixing its most apparent functional issues (for example, [2]) don't
actually address much of the above.
Granted, at the time it was introduced, there was no alternative, but
there is the AML debugger in the kernel now and there is the configfs
interface allowing custom ACPI tables to be loaded. The former can be
used for extensive AML debugging and the latter can be use for testing
new AML. [3]
Accordingly, drop custom_method along with its (outdated anyway)
documentation.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20221227063335.61474-1-zh.nvgt@gmail.com/ # [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20231111132402.4142-1-shiqiang.deng213@gmail.com/ [2]
Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62849113/how-to-unload-an-overlay-loaded-using-acpi-config-sysfs # [3]
Reported-by: Hang Zhang <zh.nvgt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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