On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 4:12 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 2:47 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:33 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > ACPI 6.4 introduced the "SpaLocationCookie" to the NFIT "System Physical
> > > Address (SPA) Range Structure". The presence of that new field is
> > > indicated by the ACPI_NFIT_LOCATION_COOKIE_VALID flag. Pre-ACPI-6.4
> > > firmware implementations omit the flag and maintain the original size of
> > > the structure.
> > >
> > > Update the implementation to check that flag to determine the size
> > > rather than the ACPI 6.4 compliant definition of 'struct
> > > acpi_nfit_system_address' from the Linux ACPICA definitions.
> > >
> > > Update the test infrastructure for the new expectations as well, i.e.
> > > continue to emulate the ACPI 6.3 definition of that structure.
> > >
> > > Without this fix the kernel fails to validate 'SPA' structures and this
> > > leads to a crash in nfit_get_smbios_id() since that routine assumes that
> > > SPAs are valid if it finds valid SMBIOS tables.
> > >
> > > BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffffffffa8
> > > [..]
> > > Call Trace:
> > > skx_get_nvdimm_info+0x56/0x130 [skx_edac]
> > > skx_get_dimm_config+0x1f5/0x213 [skx_edac]
> > > skx_register_mci+0x132/0x1c0 [skx_edac]
> > >
> > > Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Erik Kaneda <erik.kaneda@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Fixes: cf16b05c607b ("ACPICA: ACPI 6.4: NFIT: add Location Cookie field")
> >
> > Do you want me to apply this (as the commit being fixed went in
> > through the ACPI tree)?
>
> Yes, I would need to wait for a signed tag so if you're sending urgent
> fixes in the next few days please take this one, otherwise I'll circle
> back next week after -rc1.
I'll be doing my next push after -rc1 either, so I guess it doesn't
matter time-wise.
