Re: [PATCH V3] acpi: apei: clear error status before acknowledging the error

[Tyler Baicar]

On 9/13/2017 8:40 AM, Baicar, Tyler wrote:
> On 8/29/2017 2:16 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:53:41AM -0600, Tyler Baicar wrote:
> > > Currently we acknowledge errors before clearing the error status.
> > > This could cause a new error to be populated by firmware in-between
> > > the error acknowledgment and the error status clearing which would
> > > cause the second error's status to be cleared without being handled.
> > > So, clear the error status before acknowledging the errors.
> > >
> > > Also, make sure to acknowledge the error if the error status read
> > > fails.
> > >
> > > V3: Seperate check for -ENOENT return value
> > >
> > > V2: Only send error ack if there was an error populated
> > > ÂÂÂÂ Remove curly braces that are no longer needed
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Â drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 16 +++++++++-------
> > > Â 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Hello Rafael,
>
> Were you able to apply this patch?
I haven't heard anything on this patch. It would be great to have it in 
4.14 :)

Thanks,
Tyler