linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/15] acpi/ghes: don't crash QEMU if ghes GED is not found

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Message-ID: <20240926130909.00006135@Huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:09:09 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
CC: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>, Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@...wei.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Ani Sinha <anisinha@...hat.com>,
	Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu1@...il.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<qemu-arm@...gnu.org>, <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] acpi/ghes: don't crash QEMU if ghes GED is not
 found

On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:04:17 +0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> wrote:

> Instead, produce an error and continue working
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Make sense as defense in depth. Can we actually hit this for existing
systems, or is the injection stuff disabled if the ged isn't configured?

Jonathan

> ---
>  hw/acpi/ghes.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/acpi/ghes.c b/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> index 3af1cd16d4d7..209095f67e9a 100644
> --- a/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> +++ b/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> @@ -418,7 +418,10 @@ void ghes_record_cper_errors(const void *cper, size_t len,
>  
>      acpi_ged_state = ACPI_GED(object_resolve_path_type("", TYPE_ACPI_GED,
>                                                         NULL));
> -    g_assert(acpi_ged_state);
> +    if (!acpi_ged_state) {
> +        error_setg(errp, "Can't find ACPI_GED object");
> +        return;
> +    }
>      ags = &acpi_ged_state->ghes_state;
>  
>      get_ghes_offsets(le64_to_cpu(ags->ghes_addr_le),