ACK: [Patch 0/1] [SRU Bionic][Cosmic] kernel panic in ipmi_ssif at msg_done_handler

[Khaled Elmously]

On 2018-06-19 15:06:48 , Manoj Iyer wrote:
> Please consider this ARM64 patch to ipmi_ssif for Cosmic and SRU for 
> Bionic. 
> 
> When you boot bionic with Boot with i2c and ipmi_ssif enabled on Cavium 
> ThunderX2 systems with a faulty BMC that does not return any data, and 
> the code is trying to print the value if data[2], we get a kernel panic.
> 
> This was fixed upstream with commit:
> commit f002612b9d86613bc6fde0a444e0095225f6053e
> Author: Kamlakant Patel <kamlakant.patel at cavium.com>
> Date: Tue Mar 13 16:32:27 2018 +0530
> 
>     ipmi_ssif: Fix kernel panic at msg_done_handler
> 
> The kernel with this patch was tested on a Cavium ThunderX2 system by 
> me and found no regression. ipmi_ssif is only loaded on ARM64 systems, 
> this issue is observed only on Cavium ThunderX2 systems with a faulty BMC. 
> The fix does not impact other architectures or vendor systems. Regression 
> potential is low.
> 
> 
> 
Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>