linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 4/4] acpi: apei: Warn when GHES marks correctable errors as "fatal"

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Date:   Tue,  3 Apr 2018 12:08:30 -0500
From:   Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@...il.com>
To:     linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     rjw@...ysocki.net, lenb@...nel.org, tony.luck@...el.com,
        bp@...en8.de, tbaicar@...eaurora.org, will.deacon@....com,
        james.morse@....com, shiju.jose@...wei.com, zjzhang@...eaurora.org,
        gengdongjiu@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        alex_gagniuc@...lteam.com, austin_bolen@...l.com,
        shyam_iyer@...l.com, Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 4/4] acpi: apei: Warn when GHES marks correctable errors as "fatal"

There seems to be a culture amongst BIOS teams to want to crash the
OS when an error can't be handled in firmware. Marking GHES errors as
"fatal" is a very common way to do this.

However, a number of errors reported by GHES may be fatal in the sense
a device or link is lost, but are not fatal to the system. When there
is a disagreement with firmware about the handleability of an error,
print a warning message.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@...il.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
index 7243a99ea57e..d9123c5fa3d9 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
@@ -521,6 +521,11 @@ static int ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
 
 		corrected_sev = max(corrected_sev, sec_sev);
 	}
+
+	if ((sev >= GHES_SEV_PANIC) && (corrected_sev < sev)) {
+		pr_warn("FIRMWARE BUG: Firmware sent fatal error that we were able to correct");
+		pr_warn("BROKEN FIRMWARE: Complain to your hardware vendor");
+	}
 
 	return corrected_sev;
 }
-- 
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