Re: dell_smbios KASAN bug

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 15:05:54 EST


On Wed, 2019-03-20 at 14:41 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:29:20 -0500
> Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > While looking into an unrelated problem, I hit this KASAN use-
> > after-
> > free warning, so thought I'd let you know.
> >
> > I have no idea how to fix it, but let me know if you need more
> > info.
> >
>
> Could you run with debug in the kernel command line, and see if you
> hit
> any failed messages from the dell_smbios_init() call?
>

Not much, but this looks relevant:

[ 26.783749] dell_smbios: No SMBIOS backends available (wmi: -19,
smm: -19)
[ 26.963648] dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded

Tom

>
> -- Steve