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From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
To: "bwidawsk@kernel.org" <bwidawsk@kernel.org>,
	"Schofield, Alison" <alison.schofield@intel.com>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"leitao@debian.org" <leitao@debian.org>,
	"Weiny, Ira" <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
	"linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org" <linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] cxl/acpi: Do not swallow errors
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 22:33:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bef6ee32461ed5000d0f21b2c33405a9704461c7.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230714093146.2253438-2-leitao@debian.org>

On Fri, 2023-07-14 at 02:31 -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> Driver initialization is returning success (return 0) even if the
> initialization (cxl_decoder_add() or acpi_table_parse_cedt()) failed,
> and the hardware was already released (put_device()).
> 
> Return the error instead of swallowing it.
> 
> Fixes: f4ce1f766f1e ("cxl/acpi: Convert CFMWS parsing to ACPI sub-table helpers")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>

FYI there should not be a blank line between the Fixes tag and other
tags (Patch 1 has it right). This can break git's view of the trailers.

I fixed this up while applying and while at it did a bit of commit
message massaging for both patches.

> ---
>  drivers/cxl/acpi.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/acpi.c b/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
> index 642983da01cb..815b43859c16 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
> @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static int cxl_parse_cfmws(union acpi_subtable_headers *header, void *arg,
>         if (rc) {
>                 dev_err(dev, "Failed to add decode range [%#llx - %#llx]\n",
>                         res->start, res->end);
> -               return 0;
> +               return rc;
>         }
>         dev_dbg(dev, "add: %s node: %d range [%#llx - %#llx]\n",
>                 dev_name(&cxld->dev),


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-14 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-14  9:31 [PATCH v3 1/2] cxl/acpi: Fix UAF in the error path Breno Leitao
2023-07-14  9:31 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] cxl/acpi: Do not swallow errors Breno Leitao
2023-07-14 20:50   ` Alison Schofield
2023-07-14 22:33   ` Verma, Vishal L [this message]
2023-07-14 20:50 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] cxl/acpi: Fix UAF in the error path Alison Schofield
2023-07-15  3:16 ` Dan Williams

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