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Commit c74e9919 authored by Hans de Goede's avatar Hans de Goede Committed by bgman111111
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iommu/vt-d: quirk_ioat_snb_local_iommu: replace WARN_TAINT with pr_warn + add_taint



commit 81ee85d0462410de8eeeec1b9761941fd6ed8c7b upstream.

Quoting from the comment describing the WARN functions in
include/asm-generic/bug.h:

 * WARN(), WARN_ON(), WARN_ON_ONCE, and so on can be used to report
 * significant kernel issues that need prompt attention if they should ever
 * appear at runtime.
 *
 * Do not use these macros when checking for invalid external inputs

The (buggy) firmware tables which the dmar code was calling WARN_TAINT
for really are invalid external inputs. They are not under the kernel's
control and the issues in them cannot be fixed by a kernel update.
So logging a backtrace, which invites bug reports to be filed about this,
is not helpful.

Fixes: 556ab45f ("ioat2: catch and recover from broken vtd configurations v6")
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200309182510.373875-1-hdegoede@redhat.com
BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701847


Signed-off-by: default avatarJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent c1192d1a
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