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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2012-01-23 15:54:52 -0500
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-02-22 13:14:16 -0800
commitfadd85f16a8ec3fee8af599e79a209682dc52348 (patch)
tree203da1b195a8c7d90c52537b501df4d21f34e23b
parentd6126ef5f31ca54980cb067af659a360dfcca037 (diff)
x86/mce: Fix return value of mce_chrdev_read() when erst is disabled
Current kernel MCE code reads ERST at the first reading of /dev/mcelog (maybe in starting mcelogd,) even if the system does not support ERST, which results in a fake "no such device" message (as described in [1].) This problem is not critical, but can confuse system admins. This patch fixes it by filtering the return value from lower (ACPI) layer. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1060250 Reported by: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/299 Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 4979a5dfeba..87c56ba8080 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1541,6 +1541,12 @@ static int __mce_read_apei(char __user **ubuf, size_t usize)
/* Error or no more MCE record */
if (rc <= 0) {
mce_apei_read_done = 1;
+ /*
+ * When ERST is disabled, mce_chrdev_read() should return
+ * "no record" instead of "no device."
+ */
+ if (rc == -ENODEV)
+ return 0;
return rc;
}
rc = -EFAULT;