Re: [PATCHV2 1/3] x86, ras: Add new infrastructure for machine check fixup tables

From: Ross Zwisler
Date: Mon Dec 14 2015 - 12:58:50 EST


On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 01:58:04PM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
<>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MCE_KERNEL_RECOVERY
>> +/* Given an address, look for it in the machine check exception tables. */
>> +const struct exception_table_entry *search_mcexception_tables(
>> + unsigned long addr)
>> +{
>> + const struct exception_table_entry *e;
>> +
>> + e = search_extable(__start___mcex_table, __stop___mcex_table-1, addr);
>> + return e;
>> +}
>> +#endif
>
> You can make this one a bit more readable by doing:
>
> /* Given an address, look for it in the machine check exception tables. */
> const struct exception_table_entry *
> search_mcexception_tables(unsigned long addr)
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_MCE_KERNEL_RECOVERY
> return search_extable(__start___mcex_table,
> __stop___mcex_table - 1, addr);
> #endif
> }

With this code if CONFIG_MCE_KERNEL_RECOVERY isn't defined you'll get
a compiler error that the function doesn't have a return statement,
right? I think we need an #else to return NULL, or to have the #ifdef
encompass the whole function definition as it was in Tony's version.
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