From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754073AbZFFWCJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:02:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752442AbZFFWB5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:01:57 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:34407 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751721AbZFFWB5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:01:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 23:03:12 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Jeff Mitchell Cc: Jiri Slaby , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Panic early in boot Message-ID: <20090606230312.0904d0cd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <9599edfc0906060935q716993f4w7c61e8e9c1dad03e@mail.gmail.com> References: <9599edfc0906051439s7e006edcrdb68ccde60d51815@mail.gmail.com> <4A2A3961.3030504@gmail.com> <9599edfc0906060935q716993f4w7c61e8e9c1dad03e@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 12:35:33 -0400 Jeff Mitchell 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.