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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 19/25] ACPI / APEI: Only use queued estatus entry
 during _in_nmi_notify_one()
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:19:10 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 06:06:07PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> Each struct ghes has an worst-case sized buffer for storing the
> estatus. If an error is being processed by ghes_proc() in process
> context this buffer will be in use. If the error source then triggers
> an NMI-like notification, the same buffer will be used by
> _in_nmi_notify_one() to stage the estatus data, before
> __process_error() copys it into a queued estatus entry.
> 
> Merge __process_error()s work into _in_nmi_notify_one() so that
> the queued estatus entry is used from the beginning. Use the new
> ghes_peek_estatus() to know how much memory to allocate from
> the ghes_estatus_pool before reading the records.
> 
> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> 
> Change since v6:
>  * Added a comment explaining the 'ack-error, then goto no_work'.
>  * Added missing esatus-clearing, which is necessary after reading the GAS,
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

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

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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