linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] acpi: apei: clear error status before acknowledging the error

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Date:   Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:53:45 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     rjw@...ysocki.net, lenb@...nel.org, will.deacon@....com,
        james.morse@....com, shiju.jose@...wei.com, geliangtang@...il.com,
        andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: apei: clear error status before acknowledging the
 error

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 04:25:03PM -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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> index d661d45..6a6895a 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> @@ -743,17 +743,15 @@ static int ghes_proc(struct ghes *ghes)
>  	}
>  	ghes_do_proc(ghes, ghes->estatus);
>  
> +out:

If the first ghes_read_estatus() fails and we jump straight to that
label...

> +	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)) {
>  		rc = ghes_ack_error(ghes->generic_v2);

... and ACK the error anyway, even the status read failed, wouldn't that
confuse the firmware?

> -		if (rc)
> -			return rc;
>  	}

No need for the curly brackets anymore.

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    Boris.

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