APEI Firmware Bug on fedora17

[Vadim]

Hi, ALL

On server supermicro X8DTU with fedora17 my logs are beign flooded with


Jun 28 16:15:21 kvm04 kernel: [ 5053.122808] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:16:04 kvm04 kernel: [ 5096.758606] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:16:37 kvm04 kernel: [ 5129.411114] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:17:12 kvm04 kernel: [ 5164.202732] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:22:34 kvm04 kernel: [ 5486.070929] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:22:41 kvm04 kernel: [ 5492.798720] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:23:27 kvm04 kernel: [ 5538.922994] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:23:32 kvm04 kernel: [ 5544.030672] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:26:50 kvm04 kernel: [ 5740.469371] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:28:34 kvm04 kernel: [ 5845.444521] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:30:36 kvm04 kernel: [ 5966.765246] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:37:04 kvm04 kernel: [ 6354.686917] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:37:21 kvm04 kernel: [ 6371.583804] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:38:07 kvm04 kernel: [ 6417.560653] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]
Jun 28 16:38:47 kvm04 kernel: [ 6457.096362] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xbf7b5ef0/32/0/1/0]

kernels that i used
3.4.3-1.fc17.x86_64
3.4.4-3.fc17.x86_64 (from test repo)

Server HP Dl160 is workong correctly without this errors

How is it possible to fix this?

Thanks.

[george_toolan]

See this thread: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43282