This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/mce: Don't print MCEs when mcelog is active to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-mce-don-t-print-mces-when-mcelog-is-active.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cc66afea58f858ff6da7f79b8a595a67bbb4f9a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:32:59 +0200 Subject: x86/mce: Don't print MCEs when mcelog is active From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit cc66afea58f858ff6da7f79b8a595a67bbb4f9a9 upstream. Since: cd9c57cad3fe ("x86/MCE: Dump MCE to dmesg if no consumers") all MCEs are printed even when mcelog is running. Fix the regression to not print to dmesg when mcelog is running as it is a consumer too. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: cd9c57cad3fe ("x86/MCE: Dump MCE to dmesg if no consumers") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170327093304.10683-2-bp@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(mce_chrdev_read_mutex); +static int mce_chrdev_open_count; /* #times opened */ + #define mce_log_get_idx_check(p) \ ({ \ RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() && \ @@ -601,6 +603,10 @@ static int mce_default_notifier(struct n if (atomic_read(&num_notifiers) > 2) return NOTIFY_DONE; + /* Don't print when mcelog is running */ + if (mce_chrdev_open_count > 0) + return NOTIFY_DONE; + __print_mce(m); return NOTIFY_DONE; @@ -1871,7 +1877,6 @@ void mcheck_cpu_clear(struct cpuinfo_x86 */ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(mce_chrdev_state_lock); -static int mce_chrdev_open_count; /* #times opened */ static int mce_chrdev_open_exclu; /* already open exclusive? */ static int mce_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/x86-mce-don-t-print-mces-when-mcelog-is-active.patch