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Date:   Tue, 21 Aug 2018 15:21:41 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     "Ghannam, Yazen" <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Check for NULL banks in THR interrupt
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 07:00:43PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> So I think we should keep the NULL pointer checks for now to keep this fix
> small. I can make a new patch following your suggestion above.
> 
> We can change the code so that we create the data structures during the
> earlier init process, but I think this will be a much bigger change. This could
> fall under the idea of decoupling the handling code from sysfs.

Ok, then pls add the simpler fixes at the beginning of the series so
that they can go to stable and have the more involved changes follow
them.

Thx.

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