Commit 32b40a82 authored Mar 27, 2017 by Borislav Petkov Committed by Ingo Molnar Mar 28, 2017

x86/mce: Do not register notifiers with invalid prio

This is just a defensive precaution: do not register notifiers with a
priority which would disrupt the error handling in the notifiers with
prio higher than MCE_PRIO_EDAC.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170327093304.10683-7-bp@alien8.de

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

parent 5de97c9f

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c

+3 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -157,9 +157,10 @@ static atomic_t num_notifiers;

		void mce_register_decode_chain(struct notifier_block *nb)
		{
		atomic_inc(&num_notifiers);
		if (WARN_ON(nb->priority > MCE_PRIO_LOWEST && nb->priority < MCE_PRIO_EDAC))
		return;

		WARN_ON(nb->priority > MCE_PRIO_LOWEST && nb->priority < MCE_PRIO_EDAC);
		atomic_inc(&num_notifiers);

		atomic_notifier_chain_register(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, nb);
		}

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