[PATCH 6/6] x86/mce: Do not register notifiers with invalid prio

[Borislav Petkov]

From: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>

This is just a defensive precaution: do not register notifiers with a
priority which would disrupt the error handling in the notifiers with
prio higher than MCE_PRIO_EDAC.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 8e119156429b..4b57b8336ecd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -157,9 +157,10 @@ static atomic_t num_notifiers;
 
 void mce_register_decode_chain(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
-       atomic_inc(&num_notifiers);
+       if (WARN_ON(nb->priority > MCE_PRIO_LOWEST && nb->priority < 
MCE_PRIO_EDAC))
+               return;
 
-       WARN_ON(nb->priority > MCE_PRIO_LOWEST && nb->priority < MCE_PRIO_EDAC);
+       atomic_inc(&num_notifiers);
 
        atomic_notifier_chain_register(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, nb);
 }
-- 
2.11.0