From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c index 603df4f74640..0c05ab602815 100644 --- 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", }; -- 2.12.2