On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 10:58:20AM -0700, Al Chu wrote: > Hey Christian, > > I've applied the patch, thanks! Just wondering how bad this is and if > it warrants a FreeIPMI release. It sounds like on certain systems, a > segfault was probably happening all the time?
Yes, that's what seems to be happening. While we're only aware of this happening on the mentioned Dell HW, the bug itself isn't HW-specific and could well affect any systems that happen to fall through the early release paths. However, we did not reproduce it on other hardware, and did not find other reports of people experiencing this problem in the wild. For Ubuntu, we'll likely be providing this patch directly to users via our stable release update process, and so won't need an upstream release for that. However, an upstream release likely would be quite helpful for other Linux distributions and users more generally. Thanks! Bryce
