On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 06:06:05PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> The NMI-like notifications scribble over ghes->estatus, before
> copying it somewhere else. If this interrupts the ghes_probe() code
> calling ghes_proc() on each struct ghes, the data is corrupted.
>
> All the NMI-like notifications should use a queued estatus entry
> from the beginning, instead of the ghes version, then copying it.
> To do this, break up any use of "ghes->estatus" so that all
> functions take the estatus as an argument.
>
> This patch just moves these ghes->estatus dereferences into separate
s/This patch just moves/Move/
> arguments, no change in behaviour. struct ghes becomes unused in
> ghes_clear_estatus() as it only wanted ghes->estatus, which we now
> pass directly. This is removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
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