This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/mce/AMD: Give a name to MCA bank 3 when accessed with legacy MSRs
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-mce-amd-give-a-name-to-mca-bank-3-when-accessed-with-legacy-msrs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 29f72ce3e4d18066ec75c79c857bee0618a3504b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:17:14 +0200
Subject: x86/mce/AMD: Give a name to MCA bank 3 when accessed with legacy MSRs
From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>
commit 29f72ce3e4d18066ec75c79c857bee0618a3504b upstream.
MCA bank 3 is reserved on systems pre-Fam17h, so it didn't have a name.
However, MCA bank 3 is defined on Fam17h systems and can be accessed
using legacy MSRs. Without a name we get a stack trace on Fam17h systems
when trying to register sysfs files for bank 3 on kernels that don't
recognize Scalable MCA.
Call MCA bank 3 "decode_unit" since this is what it represents on
Fam17h. This will allow kernels without SMCA support to see this bank on
Fam17h+ and prevent the stack trace. This will not affect older systems
since this bank is reserved on them, i.e. it'll be ignored.
Tested on AMD Fam15h and Fam17h systems.
WARNING: CPU: 26 PID: 1 at lib/kobject.c:210 kobject_add_internal
kobject: (ffff88085bb256c0): attempted to be registered with empty name!
...
Call Trace:
kobject_add_internal
kobject_add
kobject_create_and_add
threshold_create_device
threshold_init_device
Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490102285-3659-1-git-send-email-Yazen.Ghannam@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static const char * const th_names[] = {
"load_store",
"insn_fetch",
"combined_unit",
- "",
+ "decode_unit",
"northbridge",
"execution_unit",
};
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/x86-mce-amd-give-a-name-to-mca-bank-3-when-accessed-with-legacy-msrs.patch