From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tyler Baicar Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] acpi: apei: clear error status before acknowledging the error Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:27:06 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1503939221-27732-1-git-send-email-tbaicar@codeaurora.org> <20170829081610.moq2dtxzz4vrbmo5@pd.tnic> <47ed1861-1bdb-7caf-3d6b-5304235c7e10@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47ed1861-1bdb-7caf-3d6b-5304235c7e10@codeaurora.org> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: Borislav Petkov , lenb@kernel.org, will.deacon@arm.com, james.morse@arm.com, bp@suse.de, shiju.jose@huawei.com, geliangtang@gmail.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On 9/13/2017 8:40 AM, Baicar, Tyler wrote: > On 8/29/2017 2:16 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:53:41AM -0600, Tyler Baicar wrote: >>> Currently we acknowledge errors before clearing the error status. >>> This could cause a new error to be populated by firmware in-between >>> the error acknowledgment and the error status clearing which would >>> cause the second error's status to be cleared without being handled. >>> So, clear the error status before acknowledging the errors. >>> >>> Also, make sure to acknowledge the error if the error status read >>> fails. >>> >>> V3: Seperate check for -ENOENT return value >>> >>> V2: Only send error ack if there was an error populated >>>      Remove curly braces that are no longer needed >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Tyler Baicar >>> --- >>>   drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 16 +++++++++------- >>>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) >> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov > Hello Rafael, > > Were you able to apply this patch? I haven't heard anything on this patch. It would be great to have it in 4.14 :) Thanks, Tyler