Bug 29395

Summary:	Since 5.10.56, kernel BUG (NULL pointer dereference) occur, crashing processes - related to integrated i915 GPU
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jean-Christophe Cardot <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins
Version:	8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:	29384
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	journalctl -b-1 for the bug, various occurences

Description Jean-Christophe Cardot 2021-08-21 19:33:11 CEST

Description of problem:
A processes crashes randomly. Usually a graphic intensive one, like Firefox or Minecraft.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-desktop-5.10.56-1.mga8-1-1.mga8

How reproducible:
Boot using 5.10.56-desktop-1.mga8, launch Minecraft and let it run until it crashes. Can take a long time, or not.

Comment 1 Jean-Christophe Cardot 2021-08-21 19:35:16 CEST

Created attachment 12909 [details]
journalctl -b-1 for the bug, various occurences

all with 5.10.56, previous versions did not exhibit the bug

Jean-Christophe Cardot 2021-08-21 19:35:34 CEST

Summary: Since 5.10.56, kernel bugs (NULL pointer dereference) occur, crashing processes => Since 5.10.56, kernel BUG (NULL pointer dereference) occur, crashing processes

Jean-Christophe Cardot 2021-08-21 19:38:50 CEST

Summary: Since 5.10.56, kernel BUG (NULL pointer dereference) occur, crashing processes => Since 5.10.56, kernel BUG (NULL pointer dereference) occur, crashing processes - related to integrated i915 GPU

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2021-08-21 19:41:42 CEST

this should hopefully be fixed in 5.10.60 currently in Core Updates Testing, please test that

Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Dave Hodgins 2021-08-21 20:03:05 CEST

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Attachment 12909 mime type: text/plain => application/zip

Comment 3 Jean-Christophe Cardot 2021-08-24 20:57:08 CEST

for now it seems to be working, no more crashes.
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.10.60-desktop-2.mga8 #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 11:12:31 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Comment 4 Thomas Backlund 2021-08-24 20:59:25 CEST

 Great

Depends on: (none) => 29384
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED