Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 588638
[abrt] crash in kernel: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed90000 returns all ones!
Last modified: 2015-03-01 22:59:03 EST
abrt 1.0.7 detected a crash. architecture: x86_64 cmdline: not_applicable component: kernel executable: kernel kernel: 2.6.32-22.el6.x86_64 package: kernel reason: ------------[ cut here ]------------ release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 6.0 Beta (Santiago) comment ----- After GNOME login, I recieved this error Running on Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66 GHz, 3.7 GiB of memory kerneloops ----- ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at drivers/pci/dmar.c:636 check_zero_address+0x158/0x1a4() (Not tainted) Hardware name: HP xw4600 Workstation Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed90000 returns all ones! BIOS vendor: Hewlett-Packard; Ver: 786F3 v01.21; Product Version: Modules linked in: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-22.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81067d43>] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0xc0 [<ffffffff81067de1>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50 [<ffffffff818e86f7>] check_zero_address+0x158/0x1a4 [<ffffffff812ca2ab>] ? acpi_get_table_with_size+0x5a/0xb4 [<ffffffff814d08b5>] ? _etext+0x0/0x3 [<ffffffff818e8755>] detect_intel_iommu+0x12/0x91 [<ffffffff818c4363>] pci_iommu_alloc+0x5e/0x6c [<ffffffff818d4ba7>] mem_init+0x19/0xec [<ffffffff818bccb7>] start_kernel+0x20c/0x401 [<ffffffff818bc33a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129 [<ffffffff818bc438>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109
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Looks like a hardware error not a bug, so we should probably drop the WARN_ON and the dump_stack() so abrt isn't triggered.
(In reply to comment #3) > Looks like a hardware error not a bug, so we should probably drop the WARN_ON > and the dump_stack() so abrt isn't triggered. Agreed. P.
We can leave this as is for RHEL6 as abrt will not generate further reports of this on this HW. P.
Let's actually use this BZ to introduce the world (well ... the RH world) to FW_BUG, FW_INFO, and FW_WARN as well as TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND. P.
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Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-89.el6
warns with this stack: bug 573874 bug 598059 bug 602547 bug 632500 with this guiltyfunc: bug 579563
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 therefore 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-2011-0542.html