From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Mitchell <jeffrey.mitchell@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Panic early in boot
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 23:03:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090606230312.0904d0cd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9599edfc0906060935q716993f4w7c61e8e9c1dad03e@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 12:35:33 -0400
Jeff Mitchell <jeffrey.mitchell@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Don't worry to append a link to the screenshot next time ;).
>
> Done... http://tinypic.com/r/2vuwz1j/5
>
> > Looks like dmi_string_nosave gets a mess. It tries to dereference
> > 0xffffffffeff44003d. Could you investigate to which save_indent in
> > dmi_decode does the dmi_decode+0x72 correspond to?
The dmi code isn't robust against corrupt BIOS DMI tables. I have a patch
pending for this if you want to try it out. I've no idea if that is the
trigger in your case but it may be.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-06 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 21:39 Jeff Mitchell
2009-06-06 9:39 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-06-06 16:35 ` Jeff Mitchell
2009-06-06 22:03 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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