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From: Alexander Sergeyev <sergeev917@gmail.com>
To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com
Cc: dvhart@infradead.org, andy@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org,
	pali.rohar@gmail.com, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: NULL pointer dereference in dell_set_arguments() in 4.15
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 12:23:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180204092333.GA2010@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e489f5ee-34e5-4777-afe7-38d31d2ad3fd@Dell.com>

Mario,

>Would you please try https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10194287/
>And see if it cleans up this null pointer dereference?

Yes, it does.

Is there any estimates on when the patch will be merged into mainline? I want 
to put something into my distribution bug tracker, but it's unlikely they will 
use this patch before its stabilization.

>As for your suspend problem did you pick up the new firmware that contained 
>the microcode update for Spectre? Or a microcode update from your 
>distribution?

Yes, around a month ago (the firmware option). Still, there is a time frame 
between the firmware update and the problem surfacing. As I said it was 
eliminated by switching POST/fastboot to the thorough mode. I just have tried 
to reproduce the problem with previous settings, but with no success. So, that 
is (in a way) closed, but I have no idea what it was about.

Thank you.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-04  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-03 16:20 PROBLEM: NULL pointer dereference in dell_set_arguments() in 4.15 Alexander Sergeyev
2018-02-03 20:22 ` Alexander Sergeyev
     [not found] ` <e489f5ee-34e5-4777-afe7-38d31d2ad3fd@Dell.com>
2018-02-04  9:23   ` Alexander Sergeyev [this message]
2018-02-04 12:15     ` Pali Rohár
2018-02-04 14:25       ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-04 16:29       ` Alexander Sergeyev

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