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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2] acpi: apei: clear error status before acknowledging the error
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On 8/24/2017 2:14 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:12:31PM -0600, Tyler Baicar wrote:
>> Currently we acknowledge errors before clearing the error status.
>> This could cause a new error to be populated by firmware in-between
>> the error acknowledgment and the error status clearing which would
>> cause the second error's status to be cleared without being handled.
>> So, clear the error status before acknowledging the errors.
>>
>> Also, make sure to acknowledge the error if the error status read
>> fails.
>>
>> V2: Only send error ack if there was an error populated
>> Remove curly braces that are no longer needed
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>> drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 9 +++------
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
>> index d661d45..cda4a4f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
>> @@ -743,17 +743,14 @@ static int ghes_proc(struct ghes *ghes)
>> }
>> ghes_do_proc(ghes, ghes->estatus);
>>
>> +out:
>> + ghes_clear_estatus(ghes);
>> /*
>> * GHESv2 type HEST entries introduce support for error acknowledgment,
>> * so only acknowledge the error if this support is present.
>> */
>> - if (is_hest_type_generic_v2(ghes)) {
>> + if (is_hest_type_generic_v2(ghes) && rc != -ENOENT)
> I think you should do something like this:
>
> out:
> ghes_clear_estatus(ghes);
>
> if (rc == -ENOENT)
> return rc;
>
> /*
> * GHESv2 type HEST entries introduce support for error acknowledgment,
> * so only acknowledge the error if this support is present.
> */
> if (is_hest_type_generic_v2(ghes))
> return ghes_ack_error(ghes->generic_v2);
>
> return rc;
>
>
> First check the -ENOENT because if there's no entry, you don't need to
> ACK anything anyway.
>
> And then only if it is an entry present and it is v2, you can ACK it.
>
> Hmmm?
Looks good to me, I'll send a v3 with this change.

Thanks,
Tyler

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