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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.


      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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