This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ACPI / APEI: remove the unused dead-code for SEA/NMI notification type

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: acpi-apei-remove-the-unused-dead-code-for-sea-nmi-notification-type.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From c49870e89f4d2c21c76ebe90568246bb0f3572b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Dongjiu Geng gengdongjiu@huawei.com Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:02:20 +0800 Subject: ACPI / APEI: remove the unused dead-code for SEA/NMI notification type

From: Dongjiu Geng gengdongjiu@huawei.com

commit c49870e89f4d2c21c76ebe90568246bb0f3572b7 upstream.

For the SEA notification, the two functions ghes_sea_add() and ghes_sea_remove() are only called when CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_SEA is defined. If not, it will return errors in the ghes_probe() and not continue. If the probe is failed, the ghes_sea_remove() also has no chance to be called. Hence, remove the unnecessary handling when CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_SEA is not defined.

For the NMI notification, it has the same issue as SEA notification, so also remove the unused dead-code for it.

Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng gengdongjiu@huawei.com Tested-by: Tyler Baicar tbaicar@codeaurora.org Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 33 +++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c @@ -852,17 +852,8 @@ static void ghes_sea_remove(struct ghes synchronize_rcu(); } #else /* CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_SEA */ -static inline void ghes_sea_add(struct ghes *ghes) -{ - pr_err(GHES_PFX "ID: %d, trying to add SEA notification which is not supported\n", - ghes->generic->header.source_id); -} - -static inline void ghes_sea_remove(struct ghes *ghes) -{ - pr_err(GHES_PFX "ID: %d, trying to remove SEA notification which is not supported\n", - ghes->generic->header.source_id); -} +static inline void ghes_sea_add(struct ghes *ghes) { } +static inline void ghes_sea_remove(struct ghes *ghes) { } #endif /* CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_SEA */

#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI @@ -1064,23 +1055,9 @@ static void ghes_nmi_init_cxt(void) init_irq_work(&ghes_proc_irq_work, ghes_proc_in_irq); } #else /* CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI */ -static inline void ghes_nmi_add(struct ghes *ghes) -{ - pr_err(GHES_PFX "ID: %d, trying to add NMI notification which is not supported!\n", - ghes->generic->header.source_id); - BUG(); -} - -static inline void ghes_nmi_remove(struct ghes *ghes) -{ - pr_err(GHES_PFX "ID: %d, trying to remove NMI notification which is not supported!\n", - ghes->generic->header.source_id); - BUG(); -} - -static inline void ghes_nmi_init_cxt(void) -{ -} +static inline void ghes_nmi_add(struct ghes *ghes) { } +static inline void ghes_nmi_remove(struct ghes *ghes) { } +static inline void ghes_nmi_init_cxt(void) { } #endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI */

static int ghes_probe(struct platform_device *ghes_dev)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gengdongjiu@huawei.com are

queue-4.14/acpi-apei-remove-the-unused-dead-code-for-sea-nmi-notification-type.patch