Commit-ID:  32b40a82e84414499bb4d635cafb9de9e45e6c38
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/32b40a82e84414499bb4d635cafb9de9e45e6c38
Author:     Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
AuthorDate: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:33:04 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:55:15 +0200

x86/mce: Do not register notifiers with invalid prio

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>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-e...@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170327093304.10683-7...@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
 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 36082c7..a09bb67 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);
 }

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