Re: [lkp-robot] [x86/mce] 5de97c9f6d: WARNING:at_arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c:#mce_register_decode_chain
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Apr 18 2017 - 03:39:11 EST
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:24:45AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>
> FYI, we noticed the following commit:
>
> commit: 5de97c9f6d85fd83af76e09e338b18e7adb1ae60 ("x86/mce: Factor out and deprecate the /dev/mcelog driver")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
>
> in testcase: boot
>
> on test machine: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 320M
>
> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
>
>
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> | | 011d826111 | 5de97c9f6d |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> | boot_successes | 4 | 0 |
> | boot_failures | 50 | 12 |
> | WARNING:at_arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:#note_page | 50 | 6 |
> | WARNING:at_arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c:#mce_register_decode_chain | 0 | 12 |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
>
>
>
> [ 39.479771] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c:162 mce_register_decode_chain+0x26/0x35
> [ 39.479771] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c:162 mce_register_decode_chain+0x26/0x35
Ah, that's the prio check. Thanks for reporting, here's a correction:
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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:33:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mce: Update notifier priority check
Update the check which enforces the registration of MCE decoder notifier
callbacks with valid priority only, to include mcelog's priority.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Link: 20170418022445.GE1143@yexl-desktop">http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170418022445.GE1143@yexl-desktop
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index a09bb6775c23..9d41ec8c8927 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static atomic_t num_notifiers;
void mce_register_decode_chain(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
- if (WARN_ON(nb->priority > MCE_PRIO_LOWEST && nb->priority < MCE_PRIO_EDAC))
+ if (WARN_ON(nb->priority > MCE_PRIO_MCELOG && nb->priority < MCE_PRIO_EDAC))
return;
atomic_inc(&num_notifiers);
--
2.11.0
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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