[PATCH 0/2] nfit: fail DSMs that return an unknown status value

2016-09-13 Thread Dan Williams
When the kernel knows the format of a DSM and is consuming the data internal to the kernel, it needs to be careful to fail DSMs that return an error. Recall that DSMs, ACPI Device Specific Methods, are used by the kernel to manipulate namespace label data, and scan for media errors. For example,

[PATCH 0/2] nfit: fail DSMs that return an unknown status value

2016-09-13 Thread Dan Williams
When the kernel knows the format of a DSM and is consuming the data internal to the kernel, it needs to be careful to fail DSMs that return an error. Recall that DSMs, ACPI Device Specific Methods, are used by the kernel to manipulate namespace label data, and scan for media errors. For example,