Re: PROBLEM: 4.1.4 -- Kernel Panic on shutdown

[Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>]

On 08/07/2015 07:07 PM, Ron Murray wrote:
> On 08/07/2015 10:55 AM, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>
>> There was a similar report about a crash on reboot with 4.1.3[1]
>> where that reporter linked it to a bluetooth mouse. Hopefully this
>> isn't a red herring but it might be a similar report?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laura
>>
>> [1]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248741
>>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have a bluetooth mouse (although it
> is wireless), but I do have a bluetooth keyboard. And -- surprise! -- I
> don't get a crash when I leave the keyboard turned off.
>
> It seems to me that there are at least two possibilities here:
>
> 1. Something in the bluetooth stack causes some kind of memory corruption
>
> or
>
> 2. The corruption is caused by something else, and using bluetooth
> shifts it into a memory range where it causes crashes (we already know
> that it's very touchy).
>
> Do you know if the original poster in the Red Hat bug report solved the
> problem, or did he just give up using bluetooth?
>
> Suggestions for further faultfinding appreciated.
>
>   .....Ron
>
>


There was a report of HID corruption, can you try the patch at
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git/commit/?id=0621809e37936e7c2b3eac9165cf2aad7f9189eb

Thanks,
Laura

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