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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tony.luck@intel.com, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Skip creating kobjects with NULL names
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 18:18:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180809161806.GB20928@nazgul.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180809140834.59264-2-Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>

On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 09:08:34AM -0500, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
> 
> During mce_threshold_create_device() data structures are allocated for
> each CPUs MCA banks and thresholding blocks. These data structures are
> used to save information related to AMD's MCA Error Thresholding
> feature. The structures are used in the thresholding interrupt handler,
> and they are exposed to the user through sysfs. The sysfs interface has
> user-friendly names for each bank.
> 
> However, errors in mce_threshold_create_device() will cause all the data
> structures to be deallocated. This will break the thresholding interrupt
> handler since it depends on these structures.

Same argument as before: if our init fails in some fashion, we should
not be running the interrupt handler.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-09 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-09 14:08 [PATCH 1/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Check for NULL banks in THR interrupt handler Yazen Ghannam
2018-08-09 14:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Skip creating kobjects with NULL names Yazen Ghannam
2018-08-09 16:18   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2018-08-09 18:46     ` Ghannam, Yazen
2018-08-15 15:54       ` Borislav Petkov
2018-08-16 18:46         ` Ghannam, Yazen
2018-08-21 13:15           ` Borislav Petkov
2018-08-21 18:27             ` Ghannam, Yazen
2018-08-09 16:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Check for NULL banks in THR interrupt handler Borislav Petkov
2018-08-09 18:18   ` Ghannam, Yazen
2018-08-16 19:00     ` Ghannam, Yazen
2018-08-21 13:21       ` Borislav Petkov

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