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

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 03:25:03PM +0000, Vasyl Gomonovych wrote:
> I found  apei_hest_parse() useful API to access the HEST table.

# hexdump -C /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/HEST

doesn't work for you?

Or you want to access it with an out-of-tree driver?

> I think RAS development should increase the number of users of
> apei_hest_parse(). With this API we can read HEST and modify it. Read
> example is to get a count of errors sources from HEST tables from the
> external driver and use that counter for driver data allocation.

Aha, so with external drivers my suggestion would be is to get it
upstream. The upstream kernel doesn't care about out-of-tree users so
I'd strongly suggest you try to get that functionality upstream because
otherwise that unused export will get removed.

HTH.

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