ACPI / APEI: clear error status before acknowledging the error

BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1732990
Currently we acknowledge errors before clearing the error status.
This could cause a new error to be populated by firmware in-between
the error acknowledgment and the error status clearing which would
cause the second error's status to be cleared without being handled.
So, clear the error status before acknowledging the errors.

Also, make sure to acknowledge the error if the error status read
fails.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit aaf2c2fb0f51f91c699039440862b6ae9c25c10e)
Signed-off-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Pisati <paolo.pisati@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
index f9f106e62e747c0c12b7e09f3ccb86b4dd26dda7..3784897c2f660bac436455dde68409461162ba1a 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
@@ -728,17 +728,19 @@ static int ghes_proc(struct ghes *ghes)
        }
        ghes_do_proc(ghes, ghes->estatus);
 
+out:
+       ghes_clear_estatus(ghes);
+
+       if (rc == -ENOENT)
+               return rc;
+
        /*
         * GHESv2 type HEST entries introduce support for error acknowledgment,
         * so only acknowledge the error if this support is present.
         */
-       if (is_hest_type_generic_v2(ghes)) {
-               rc = ghes_ack_error(ghes->generic_v2);
-               if (rc)
-                       return rc;
-       }
-out:
-       ghes_clear_estatus(ghes);
+       if (is_hest_type_generic_v2(ghes))
+               return ghes_ack_error(ghes->generic_v2);
+
        return rc;
 }