Bug#717473: BUG: Null pointer deref in amd64_edac_mod/amd64_probe_one_instance during boot

2013-07-24 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:04:49AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > This is absolutely stable material. Most of the people affected are > not going to work out that they plugged their memory in wrong. (And > maybe some of them only have one module.) Hmm, not from my experience. This is the first repo

Bug#717473: BUG: Null pointer deref in amd64_edac_mod/amd64_probe_one_instance during boot

2013-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:39:11AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:24:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > I've tested it against 3.10 and I can confirm that it works. I've > > booted the system with the DRAM on the same channel, and on > > separate channels, and it's work

Bug#717473: BUG: Null pointer deref in amd64_edac_mod/amd64_probe_one_instance during boot

2013-07-23 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:24:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > I've tested it against 3.10 and I can confirm that it works. I've > booted the system with the DRAM on the same channel, and on > separate channels, and it's working without problems in both cases. That's good news, thanks for testing

Bug#717473: BUG: Null pointer deref in amd64_edac_mod/amd64_probe_one_instance during boot

2013-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:05:57PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 08:19:26PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Ben's patch does allow me to boot the system with the memory in this > > configuration on a 3.10 kernel. > > Ok, I actually think we can fix it the way below. It shou

Bug#717473: BUG: Null pointer deref in amd64_edac_mod/amd64_probe_one_instance during boot

2013-07-23 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 08:19:26PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Ben's patch does allow me to boot the system with the memory in this > configuration on a 3.10 kernel. Ok, I actually think we can fix it the way below. It should be equivalent to Ben's patch in current functionality with the differenc

Bug#717473: BUG: Null pointer deref in amd64_edac_mod/amd64_probe_one_instance during boot

2013-07-21 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 06:41:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 09:54 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > If the bug is in amd64_edac_mod, there are only two possible commits > > which could cause the problem: > > > > 1eef12825 amd64_edac: Correct DIMM sizes > > 94c1acf2c amd64_ed

Bug#717473: BUG: Null pointer deref in amd64_edac_mod/amd64_probe_one_instance during boot

2013-07-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 09:54 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > If the bug is in amd64_edac_mod, there are only two possible commits > which could cause the problem: > > 1eef12825 amd64_edac: Correct DIMM sizes > 94c1acf2c amd64_edac: Add Family 16h support > > Which are the only commits between 3.8 and