Bug 1372994

Summary: [abrt] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 90 at arch/x86/kernel/check.c:141 check_for_bios_corruption+0xb6/0x100
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: japadros
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 25CC: gansalmon, ichavero, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Unspecified   
URL: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/1628e650a06d4ea98a775b7ef0d7fb7bc3fc6442
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Description japadros 2016-09-04 14:24:36 UTC 
Description of problem:
While installing on laptop (HP dv6 pavilion, latinamerican version). Disk was blanked during installation.

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.7.2
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 90 at arch/x86/kernel/check.c:141 check_for_bios_corruption+0xb6/0x100
Memory corruption detected in low memory
Modules linked in: ath9k(+) snd_hda_codec_idt(+) amd_iommu_v2 snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_codec_hdmi uvcvideo ath9k_common radeon(+) intel_powerclamp ath9k_hw snd_hda_intel coretemp snd_hda_codec videobuf2_vmalloc mac80211 kvm_intel videobuf2_memops snd_hda_core videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_core i2c_algo_bit kvm snd_hwdep videodev ttm ath snd_seq cfg80211 irqbypass drm_kms_helper media snd_seq_device snd_pcm drm intel_cstate snd_timer intel_uncore snd hp_wmi soundcore sparse_keymap iTCO_wdt rfkill iTCO_vendor_support mei_me shpchp i2c_i801 i7core_edac joydev lpc_ich hp_accel mei edac_core wmi video i2c_smbus acpi_cpufreq lis3lv02d tpm_tis input_polldev tpm_tis_core tpm nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace nls_utf8 isofs squashfs crc32c_intel serio_raw 8021q garp stp llc mrp r8169 mii fjes
 wacom sunrpc scsi_transport_iscsi loop
CPU: 3 PID: 90 Comm: kworker/3:1 Not tainted 4.8.0-0.rc2.git3.1.fc25.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC/1448, BIOS F.07 05/17/2010
Workqueue: events check_corruption
 0000000000000286 000000002384673b ffffa2beb4b07c58 ffffffff9c467eb3
 ffffa2beb4b07ca8 0000000000000000 ffffa2beb4b07c98 ffffffff9c0ae6db
 0000008d00009a68 ffffa2bc80010000 0000000000000000 ffffffff9d451e70
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff9c467eb3>] dump_stack+0x86/0xc3
 [<ffffffff9c0ae6db>] __warn+0xcb/0xf0
 [<ffffffff9c0ae75f>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80
 [<ffffffff9c0695c6>] check_for_bios_corruption+0xb6/0x100
 [<ffffffff9c06961e>] check_corruption+0xe/0x40
 [<ffffffff9c0ce96e>] process_one_work+0x23e/0x6f0
 [<ffffffff9c0ce8ea>] ? process_one_work+0x1ba/0x6f0
 [<ffffffff9c0cee6e>] worker_thread+0x4e/0x490
 [<ffffffff9c0cee20>] ? process_one_work+0x6f0/0x6f0
 [<ffffffff9c0cee20>] ? process_one_work+0x6f0/0x6f0
 [<ffffffff9c0d61d1>] kthread+0x101/0x120
 [<ffffffff9c10e6d5>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf5/0x1b0
 [<ffffffff9c8f9e6f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
 [<ffffffff9c0d60d0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x250/0x250
Comment 1 japadros 2016-09-04 14:24:46 UTC 
Created attachment 1197642 [details]
File: dmesg
Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2016-09-04 14:31:30 UTC 
This is the kernel saying that your BIOS has problems.  There's nothing we can do here.