On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 06:54:29PM +0200, Josef Johansson wrote:
> On 8/25/22 17:14, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 08:03:33AM +0200, Josef Johansson wrote:
> > > On 7/8/22 14:09, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > I tried build Linux 6.0 and run under Xen 4.14.5. I got a kernel null pointer dereferenced while booting. Reverting this commit allowed the system to boot.
> > >
> > > Since I do not have any way of capturing the error except camera (it's a long message), here's my best try.
> > >
> > > BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
> > I think I know what happens there. Can you test a hackpatch (below)
> > with my patch _not being reverted_?
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-scmi.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-scmi.c
> > index 79798fc7462a..3ed1758706b0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-scmi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-scmi.c
> > @@ -426,6 +426,9 @@ static struct acpi_driver acpi_smbus_cmi_driver = {
> > .add = acpi_smbus_cmi_add,
> > .remove = acpi_smbus_cmi_remove,
> > },
> > + .drv = {
> > + .acpi_match_table = acpi_smbus_cmi_ids,
> > + },
> > };
> > module_acpi_driver(acpi_smbus_cmi_driver);
> >
> Hi,
>
> I applied your patch and the system boots now. Good job :)
Yeah, but the initial conversion will be transformed to much bigger since
maintainer doesn't want the fix in the ACPI glue code for the (deprecated)
ACPI drivers.
So there will be no patches soon, but I will Cc you to anything
I will come up with in the future. Thanks for testing and reporting!
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
