linux-kernel - [PATCH] ACPI/APEI: Better fix to avoid spamming the console with old error logs

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Message-Id: <20220622170906.33759-1-tony.luck@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:09:06 -0700
From:   Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Darren Hart <darren@...amperecomputing.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Doug Rady <dcrady@...amperecomputing.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ACPI/APEI: Better fix to avoid spamming the console with old error logs

The fix in commit 3f8dec116210 ("ACPI/APEI: Limit printable size of BERT
table data") does not work as intended on systems where the BIOS has a
fixed size block of memory for the BERT table, relying on s/w to quit
when it finds a record with estatus->block_status == 0. On these systems
all errors are suppressed because the check:

	if (region_len < ACPI_BERT_PRINT_MAX_LEN)

always fails.

New scheme skips individual CPER records that are too large, and also
limits the total number of records that will be printed to 5.

Fixes: 3f8dec116210 ("ACPI/APEI: Limit printable size of BERT table data")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
---

Now in PATCH format with a real commit comment. This version fixes
the issues seen by Intel's validation team.

 drivers/acpi/apei/bert.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/bert.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/bert.c
index 598fd19b65fa..45973aa6e06d 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/bert.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/bert.c
@@ -29,16 +29,26 @@
 
 #undef pr_fmt
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "BERT: " fmt
+
+#define ACPI_BERT_PRINT_MAX_RECORDS 5
 #define ACPI_BERT_PRINT_MAX_LEN 1024
 
 static int bert_disable;
 
+/*
+ * Print "all" the error records in the BERT table, but avoid huge spam to
+ * the console if the BIOS included oversize records, or too many records.
+ * Skipping some records here does not lose anything because the full
+ * data is available to user tools in:
+ *	/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/data/BERT
+ */
 static void __init bert_print_all(struct acpi_bert_region *region,
 				  unsigned int region_len)
 {
 	struct acpi_hest_generic_status *estatus =
 		(struct acpi_hest_generic_status *)region;
 	int remain = region_len;
+	int printed = 0, skipped = 0;
 	u32 estatus_len;
 
 	while (remain >= sizeof(struct acpi_bert_region)) {
@@ -46,24 +56,26 @@ static void __init bert_print_all(struct acpi_bert_region *region,
 		if (remain < estatus_len) {
 			pr_err(FW_BUG "Truncated status block (length: %u).\n",
 			       estatus_len);
-			return;
+			break;
 		}
 
 		/* No more error records. */
 		if (!estatus->block_status)
-			return;
+			break;
 
 		if (cper_estatus_check(estatus)) {
 			pr_err(FW_BUG "Invalid error record.\n");
-			return;
+			break;
 		}
 
-		pr_info_once("Error records from previous boot:\n");
-		if (region_len < ACPI_BERT_PRINT_MAX_LEN)
+		if (estatus_len < ACPI_BERT_PRINT_MAX_LEN &&
+		    printed < ACPI_BERT_PRINT_MAX_RECORDS) {
+			pr_info_once("Error records from previous boot:\n");
 			cper_estatus_print(KERN_INFO HW_ERR, estatus);
-		else
-			pr_info_once("Max print length exceeded, table data is available at:\n"
-				     "/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/data/BERT");
+			printed++;
+		} else {
+			skipped++;
+		}
 
 		/*
 		 * Because the boot error source is "one-time polled" type,
@@ -75,6 +87,9 @@ static void __init bert_print_all(struct acpi_bert_region *region,
 		estatus = (void *)estatus + estatus_len;
 		remain -= estatus_len;
 	}
+
+	if (skipped)
+		pr_info(HW_ERR "Skipped %d error records\n", skipped);
 }
 
 static int __init setup_bert_disable(char *str)
-- 
2.35.3