Re: [PATCH] acpi: apei: fix GHES estatus iteration

From: gengdongjiu
Date: Thu Aug 10 2017 - 18:07:07 EST




On 2017/8/9 8:52, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 6:32:20 PM CEST Will Deacon wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 03:32:25PM -0600, Tyler Baicar wrote:
>>> Currently iterating through the GHES estatus blocks does not
>>> take into account the new generic data v3 structure size. This
>>> can result in garbage non-standard trace events to be triggered
>>> since the loop will not properly iterate through the estatus
>>> blocks and not properly terminate.
>>>
>>> Update the GHES estatus iteration to properly increment through
>>> the estatus blocks similar to how the CPER estatus printing
>>> iterates through them.
>>>
>>> Fixes: bbcc2e7b642e ("ras: acpi/apei: cper: add support for generic data v3 structure")
I do not think it has relationship with this "bbcc2e7b642e", the root cause is that it
does not consider the acpi_hest_generic_data_v300, this code exists long long time ago.

so please also review this patch:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/10/747

previously I do not see Tyler's this modification, just know see it.


>>> Signed-off-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Tested-by: Austin Christ <austinwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/acpi/apei/apei-internal.h | 5 -----
>>> drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 8 +++++++-
>>> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> Whilst much of the initial code here went through the arm64 tree in the
>> previous merge window, I'm assuming that Boris will take this fix via his
>> tree (likewise for "[PATCH V2] acpi: apei: clear error status before
>> acknowledging the error").
>
> Actually I will if Boris ACKs these.
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
>
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