[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [PATCH] x86/mcheck: allow varying bank counts per CPU
On 2025-09-05 12:52, Soham Dandapat wrote: In mca_cap_init function,the mcabanks_alloc allocates and initializes an mca_banks structure for managing MCA banks, setting up a bank map and storing the specified or default number of banks. After this we will call mcabanks_set(i, mca_allbanks); The mcabanks_set function sets a specific bit in the bank_map of an mca_banks structure, provided the structure, its bank_map, and the bit index are valid. At the end, we will call mcabanks_free(xchg(&mca_allbanks, all)); This function is thread safe and does below: 1. Atomically exchanges the value of "mca_allbanks" with "all" 2. Returns the old value that was previously in "mca_allbanks" So, when we will call mcabanks_free , that will free the memory. The problem is that mcabanks_set(i, mca_allbanks) function is updating mca_allbanks which will be freed via mcabanks_free later. This means new mca_allbanks instance("all") will never get chance to update it's bank_map. Due to this when we will collect log from mcheck_mca_logout function , the condition "if ( !mcabanks_test(i, bankmask) )" will always fails and MCA logs will not be collected for any bank. The fix is to solve this problem. Fixes: 560cf418c845 ("x86/mcheck: allow varying bank counts per CPU") Signed-off-by: Soham Dandapat <soham.dandapat@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@xxxxxxx>Maybe the patch subject should be "x86/mcheck: Fix mca bank initialization" to differentiate from the Fixes commit? Thanks, Jason
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