Hi, On Monday, August 22, 2011, Rick Warner wrote: ... > Hi Rafael, > > Thanks for the off-list help in getting you this info. > > I had already rebuilt the kernel using the change I mentioned earlier (test on > !&g->error_status_address) since the call trace I got. > > I luckily still had a copy of the kernel and modules I built previously using > just your patch, so I undid my change to the ghes.c source, leaving just your > patch but not mine so it would match the ghes.ko module I ran on. This is the > output of gdb on that ghes.ko now: > > (gdb) l *ghes_read_estatus+0x38 > 0x258 is in ghes_read_estatus (drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:296). > warning: Source file is more recent than executable. > 291 int rc; > 292 if (!g) > 293 return -EINVAL; > 294 > 295 rc = acpi_atomic_read(&buf_paddr, &g->error_status_address); > 296 if (rc) { > 297 if (!silent && printk_ratelimit()) > 298 pr_warning(FW_WARN GHES_PFX > 299 "Failed to read error status block address for hardware error source: > %d.\n", > 300 g->header.source_id); > > The warning about the source being newer is because of the reverted change in > the ghes.c source mentioned above. OK, since &buf_addr cannot be NULL, perhaps ghes is. Please check if the appended patch makes a difference. Thanks, Rafael --- drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c +++ linux/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c @@ -393,11 +393,16 @@ static void ghes_copy_tofrom_phys(void * static int ghes_read_estatus(struct ghes *ghes, int silent) { - struct acpi_hest_generic *g = ghes->generic; + struct acpi_hest_generic *g; u64 buf_paddr; u32 len; int rc; + if (!ghes || !ghes->generic) + return -EINVAL; + + g = ghes->generic; + rc = acpi_atomic_read(&buf_paddr, &g->error_status_address); if (rc) { if (!silent && printk_ratelimit()) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html