linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC, ghes: Make it a proper module

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Date:   Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:47:15 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@....com>
Cc:     "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "mchehab@...radead.org" <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "tony.luck@...el.com" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "rjw@...ysocki.net" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC, ghes: Make it a proper module

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 06:50:56PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> This simply sets NULL to pvt, and does not initialize ghes_pvt.

Yeah, I guess we need this ontop:

---
diff --git a/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c b/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c
index ecd34b8bd27e..e158bf4ee337 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c
@@ -422,7 +422,6 @@ static const char * const super_crap_msg =
 
 static int __init ghes_edac_register(void)
 {
-	struct ghes_edac_pvt *pvt = ghes_pvt;
 	bool fake = false;
 	int rc, num_dimm = 0;
 	struct mem_ctl_info *mci;
@@ -446,15 +445,15 @@ static int __init ghes_edac_register(void)
 	 * We need to serialize edac_mc_alloc() and edac_mc_add_mc(),
 	 * to avoid duplicated memory controller numbers
 	 */
-	mci = edac_mc_alloc(1, ARRAY_SIZE(layers), layers, sizeof(*pvt));
+	mci = edac_mc_alloc(1, ARRAY_SIZE(layers), layers, sizeof(struct ghes_edac_pvt));
 	if (!mci) {
 		edac_pr_err("Can't allocate memory for EDAC data\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	pvt = mci->pvt_info;
-	memset(pvt, 0, sizeof(*pvt));
-	pvt->mci  = mci;
+	ghes_pvt = mci->pvt_info;
+	memset(ghes_pvt, 0, sizeof(struct ghes_edac_pvt));
+	ghes_pvt->mci = mci;
 
 	mci->pdev = &dummy_dev;
 
---

>  As Mauro pointed out, some type of GHES check needs to be in place
> before making this change.

Your whitelist I guess.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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