Re: NULL pointer dereference in igen6_probe - 6.16-rc2

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 02:09:42PM +0000, Zhuo, Qiuxu wrote:
> In the 10nm_edac driver for Intel Xeon server, 'cfg' is non-const, and the field
> 'cfg->ddr_imc_num' [1] is overwritten with the number of detected DDR memory
> controllers at runtime.
> 
> Reverting 'cfg' in this igen6_edac driver to non-const, allowing it to be set
> with the actual number of detected memory controllers seems reasonable.

Question is: is that something the driver should allow? Detecting more memory
controllers but enabling less. How can that even happen?

> After that then applying Boris' fix above is the simplest way to resolve the 
> issue. 😊

Right, just prepare a proper patch, please, so that Marek can test and
confirm.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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