Re: [PATCH] x86/MCE/AMD: Decrement threshold_bank refcount when removing threshold blocks

From: Mateusz Jończyk
Date: Sat Aug 13 2022 - 08:04:38 EST


W dniu 13.08.2022 o 12:09, Borislav Petkov pisze:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 11:14:44PM +0200, Mateusz Jończyk wrote:
>> After these changes, the __threshold_remove_blocks() function looks
>> very similar to deallocate_threshold_blocks() function just above it.
> Yes, minus the list_del(&pos->miscj); But that can be made conditional
> with a bool arg to deallocate_threshold_blocks() and then remove
> __threshold_remove_blocks().
>
> Care to take Yazen's patch, fix it up, test it thoroughly (you should
> enable KASAN to catch any potential memory leaks) and send it?
>
> Thx.
>
I'll try, but I don't understand the code well yet, and have access to only one
old computer with an AMD CPU.

Greetings,

Mateusz,