linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] samsung-laptop: Disable if CONFIG

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Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:37:53 +0100
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
Cc:	Corentin Chary <corentincj@...aif.net>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	Alessandro Crismani <alessandro.crismani@...il.com>,
	Mikhail Bakhterev <mike.bakhterev@...il.com>,
	Patrick H <kernel@...storm.net>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] samsung-laptop: Disable if CONFIG_EFI=y

On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 05:35:06PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
> 
> We've started getting reports of users seeing Machine Check Exceptions
> when booting their Samsung laptops in UEFI mode,
> 
>      https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121
> 
> This module seems to be the culprit as it's grovelling around in the
> 0xf0000 region which has no mapping in either the e820 or EFI memory
> maps on the affected machines.

So, does this mean that if we try to ioremap a memory location in the
kernel, like this driver is, it will not fail, but, when accessing the
memory, bad things happen?

That's not good, shouldn't the call to ioremap_nocache() have failed
originally?  That sounds like a core EFI/platform bug here, and one that
you might run into other places.

Shouldn't fixing that be the real fix?


thanks,

greg k-h
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