linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] acpi: apei: fix the wrongly iterate generic error status block

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Message-ID: <20170817092553.xcfbuplana2wbajb@pd.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:25:53 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>
Cc:     tbaicar@...eaurora.org, james.morse@....com, geliangtang@...il.com,
        andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
        austinwc@...eaurora.org, rjw@...ysocki.net, lenb@...nel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxarm@...wei.com, john.garry@...wei.com, shiju.jose@...wei.com,
        zhengqiang10@...wei.com, wangxiongfeng2@...wei.com,
        huangshaoyu@...wei.com, wuquanming@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] acpi: apei: fix the wrongly iterate generic error
 status block

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 04:14:50PM +0800, Dongjiu Geng wrote:
> The revision 0x300 generic error data entry is different
> from the old version, but currently iterating through the
> GHES estatus blocks does not take into account this difference.
> This will lead to failure to get the right data entry if GHES
> has revision 0x300 error data entry.
> 
> Update the GHES estatus iteration to properly increment using

			  iteration macro

> acpi_hest_get_next, and correct the iteration termination condition

Please end function names with parentheses.

> because the status block data length only includes error data length.

<---- newline here.

> Clear the CPER estatus printing iteration logic to use same macro.

s/Clear ... /Convert ... to the same macro./

> 
> Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>
> CC: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/apei/apei-internal.h |  5 -----
>  drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c       | 12 ++----------
>  include/acpi/ghes.h               |  5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

With those addressed you can add:

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

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