On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 2:47 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:33 AM Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > ACPI 6.4 introduced the "SpaLocationCookie" to the NFIT "System Physical
> > Address (SPA) Range Structure". The presence of that new field is
> > indicated by the ACPI_NFIT_LOCATION_COOKIE_VALID flag. Pre-ACPI-6.4
> > firmware implementations omit the flag and maintain the original size of
> > the structure.
> >
> > Update the implementation to check that flag to determine the size
> > rather than the ACPI 6.4 compliant definition of 'struct
> > acpi_nfit_system_address' from the Linux ACPICA definitions.
> >
> > Update the test infrastructure for the new expectations as well, i.e.
> > continue to emulate the ACPI 6.3 definition of that structure.
> >
> > Without this fix the kernel fails to validate 'SPA' structures and this
> > leads to a crash in nfit_get_smbios_id() since that routine assumes that
> > SPAs are valid if it finds valid SMBIOS tables.
> >
> >     BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffffffffa8
> >     [..]
> >     Call Trace:
> >      skx_get_nvdimm_info+0x56/0x130 [skx_edac]
> >      skx_get_dimm_config+0x1f5/0x213 [skx_edac]
> >      skx_register_mci+0x132/0x1c0 [skx_edac]
> >
> > Cc: Bob Moore <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Erik Kaneda <[email protected]>
> > Fixes: cf16b05c607b ("ACPICA: ACPI 6.4: NFIT: add Location Cookie field")
>
> Do you want me to apply this (as the commit being fixed went in
> through the ACPI tree)?

Yes, I would need to wait for a signed tag so if you're sending urgent
fixes in the next few days please take this one, otherwise I'll circle
back next week after -rc1.

>
> If you'd rather take care of it yourself:
>
> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>

Thanks!
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