linux-kernel - Re: Regression in IPMI on 4.15.6

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Message-ID: <bdb67791-9a2c-bd04-5678-efb6b3cdf962@acm.org>
Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:17:10 -0600
From:   Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc:     openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in IPMI on 4.15.6

On 02/28/2018 07:53 AM, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 02/27/2018 05:55 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Fedora got a bug report of a crash in IPMI on 4.15.6
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549316
>> Unfortunately, it's only a screenshot but it's fairly
>> clear. It looks like a panic in the error handling path
>> in platform_device_unregister. Any ideas?
>>
>

You may also run into another issue.  You can pull the
individual patch at

https://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi.git 
c8a1972e77dbe321ce5ce0247056e727234cbaec

for that fix.

-corey

> Yeah, this is fixed by 174134ac7602 "ipmi_si: Fix error
> handling of platform device" in mainstream.
>
> I guess I need to request a backport of this.
>
> Thanks for reporting.
>
> -corey
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Laura
>
>