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Date:   Sun, 24 Jan 2021 09:20:12 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Tianjia Zhang <tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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        Jia Zhang <zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] x86/sgx: Remove redundant if conditions in
 sgx_encl_create
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On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 02:29:07PM +0800, Tianjia Zhang wrote:
> In this scenario, there is no case where va_page is NULL, and
> the error has been checked. The if condition statement here is
> redundant, so remove the condition detection.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tianjia Zhang <tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c
> index 1c6ecf9fbeff..b0b829f1b761 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c
> @@ -66,9 +66,11 @@ static int sgx_encl_create(struct sgx_encl *encl, struct sgx_secs *secs)
>  	va_page = sgx_encl_grow(encl);
>  	if (IS_ERR(va_page))
>  		return PTR_ERR(va_page);
> -	else if (va_page)
> -		list_add(&va_page->list, &encl->va_pages);
> -	/* else the tail page of the VA page list had free slots. */
> +
> +	if (WARN_ONCE(!va_page, "non-empty VA page list before ECREATE"))
> +		return -EIO;

So you just crashed machines that have panic-on-warn enabled.  Don't do
that for no reason, just handle the error and move on.

thanks,

greg k-h