Bug 155344

Summary:	add fix for IPMI/ACPI OOPS
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Brian Maly <bmaly>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	peterm, tao
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-514	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	154907, 156322

Description Karsten Hopp 2005-04-19 11:29:24 UTC

Description of problem:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6967907&forum_id=14082
> I meet an OOPs when loading si driver on a HP CX2600 machine with Red Hat 
> Enterprise Linux AS release 4(2.6.9). It seems we get a zero 
> register_bit_width  and a invalid address after acpi_get_firmware_table.
> The ACPI guys gave out a patch for it as follows.
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c	2005-03-03 10:56:51.000000000 +0800
 +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c	2005-03-17 16:34:32.478606080 +0800
 @@ -1466,6 +1466,11 @@ static int try_init_acpi(int intf_num, s
  	if (!is_new_interface(-1, addr_space, spmi->addr.address))
  		return -ENODEV;
  
 +	if (!spmi->addr.register_bit_width) {
 +		acpi_failure = 1;
 +		return -ENODEV;
 +	}
 +
  	/* Figure out the interface type. */
  	switch (spmi->InterfaceType)
  	{


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel < 2.6.11

Comment 1 Brian Maly 2005-06-02 20:59:50 UTC

patch posted 6/2/2005  (pending approval)

Comment 2 Brian Maly 2005-06-14 20:32:36 UTC

devel ACK for U2

Comment 4 Brian Maly 2005-07-25 19:18:01 UTC

the following patch was posted to rhkernel (which resolves this issue):


--- linux-2.6.9/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c.orig	2005-06-02
15:59:39.274561784 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.9/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c	2005-06-02 16:01:12.000000000 -0400
@@ -1466,6 +1466,11 @@ static int try_init_acpi(int intf_num, s
 	if (!is_new_interface(-1, addr_space, spmi->addr.address))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	if (!spmi->addr.register_bit_width) {
+		acpi_failure = 1;
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
 	/* Figure out the interface type. */
 	switch (spmi->InterfaceType)
 	{

Comment 7 David Lawrence 2005-08-09 18:45:23 UTC

Is bug 165466 related to this?

Comment 8 Brian Maly 2005-08-09 18:51:41 UTC

bug 165466 appears to be a duplicate of this bug (based on the symptoms anyway).
the -11.41.EL kernel should fix this issue

Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-05 13:01:47 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html