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AmpereComputing / ampere-lts-kernel

Linux 5.4 and 5.10 Longterm kernel (LTS) with Ampere patches
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BERT patch backport to 4.18 kernel #177

Open adamliyi opened 1 year ago

adamliyi commented 1 year ago

Two PRs has been created: 1) https://github.com/AmpereComputing/ampere-centos-kernel/pull/1 This PR include 3 patches. “ACPI: APEI: Fix possible out-of-bounds access to BERT region” is dependency patch.

2) https://github.com/AmpereComputing/ampere-centos-kernel/pull/5, it fixes this issue: "This testing exposed a 2 year old kernel issue with reading from a non-aligned offset from /sys/firmware/tables/acpi/data/BERT. Ilkka found a recently proposed patch for that kernel issue: https://lkml.org/lkml/fancy/2022/3/1/708"

Details in bug: 92583

We need to test these PRs.

adamliyi commented 1 year ago

Backport this to 5.4, 5.10, 5.15 kernel and test.