linux-kernel - Re: [3.10 regression] mei endless recursion

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Message-ID: <20130819113806.GA11577@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:38:07 +0200
From:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:	"Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [3.10 regression] mei endless recursion

Hi

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:15:20AM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > We have a bug report when system fail to boot on 3.10 . It happens due to
> > problem in mei which do endless calls:
> > 
> > mei_reset -> mei_hbm_start_req -> mei_reset -> mei_hbm_start_req -> ...
> > 
> > It did not happen on 3.9.
> 
> This is the same as https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60612
> There is few issues with the reset but this major root cause should be fixed by this patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/17/219

FYI: user reported that this patch did not fix problem for him, though
system boot now, but recursion happened when he tried to login.

Thanks
Stanislaw
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