Re: [PATCH V3] acpi: apei: clear error status before acknowledging the error

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Aug 29 2017 - 04:16:31 EST


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 <tbaicar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 16 +++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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