Re: [PATCH] ACPI: APEI: Check NULL argument in exported symbol

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 10:48:11PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 12:56:10PM -0700, Vasyl Gomonovych wrote:
> > Exported symbol apei_hest_parse is external API
> > and should check pointer argument
> 
> Why?
> 
> All users pass a proper, non-NULL function pointer AFAICT.

Looking at this more, that apei_hest_parse() thng should be made static
and the export dropped.

The last user was removed in

708b20003624 ("PCI/AER: Remove HEST/FIRMWARE_FIRST parsing for AER ownership")

You could mention it in the commit log.

Thx.

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