Re: [PATCH v2] apei/ghes: correctly return NULL for ghes_get_devices()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Jun 12 2023 - 13:35:56 EST


On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 7:26 PM Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Since 315bada690e0 ("EDAC: Check for GHES preference in the
> > > chipset-specific EDAC drivers"), vendor specific EDAC driver will not
> > > probe correctly when CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES is enabled but no GHES device
> > > is present. Make ghes_get_devices() return NULL when the GHES device
> > > list is empty to fix the problem.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 9057a3f7ac36 ("EDAC/ghes: Prepare to make ghes_edac a proper module")
> > > Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Boris, Tony, any comments?
>
> All of the callers are expecting NULL for a failure, not an empty list. So this looks OK to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied as 6.5 material, thanks!