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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] x86, RAS: Add a decoded msg buffer
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:43:52PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> + if (left <= 50) {
> + /* enlarge arbitrarily by 50 chars */
> + err_str_sz += 50;
> + left += 50;
> +
> + err_str = krealloc(err_str, err_str_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!err_str) {
> + pr_err("Error enlarging decode buffer.\n");
> + return;
> + }
> + }
>
> This looks worrying to me. Some bad stuff has happened, we are perhaps
> in machine check context, and you want to start allocating memory!

Yes, absolutely. See my other mail to Seto-san.

> Is there some upper bound for how long this string can get? Why not
> just allocate a generous amount at boot time?

Yep, this sounds like the easiest thing to do, let me play with MCE
injection a bit.

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