[Bug 1564517] Re: lshw segfaults while checking SCSI subsystem on Dell Precision 5510

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# gdb lshw
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Reading symbols from lshw...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/lshw 
SCSI                      
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
__GI_____strtol_l_internal (nptr=0x0, endptr=0x0, base=10, group=<optimized out>, loc=0x7ffff783a420 <_nl_global_locale>) at ../stdlib/strtol_l.c:293
293     ../stdlib/strtol_l.c: Нет такого файла или каталога.

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Title:
  lshw segfaults while checking SCSI subsystem on Dell Precision 5510

Status in lshw package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  
  Running lshw on a Dell Precision 5510 causes it to segfault unless I use `lshw -disable SCSI`.

  
  Release:
  root at cat:~# lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  
  root at cat:~# gdb `which lshw`
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  Reading symbols from /usr/bin/lshw...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
  (gdb) run
  Starting program: /usr/bin/lshw 
  SCSI                      
  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  __memcpy_sse2_unaligned () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memcpy-sse2-unaligned.S:116
  116	../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memcpy-sse2-unaligned.S: No such file or directory.

  (gdb) bt
  #0  __memcpy_sse2_unaligned () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memcpy-sse2-unaligned.S:116
  #1  0x00007ffff7b919be in char* std::string::_S_construct<char const*>(char const*, char const*, std::allocator<char> const&, std::forward_iterator_tag) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
  #2  0x00007ffff7b91a2d in std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_string(char const*, unsigned long, std::allocator<char> const&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
  #3  0x00000000004576d6 in ?? ()
  #4  0x0000000000458dcd in ?? ()
  #5  0x000000000045d494 in ?? ()
  #6  0x0000000000417486 in ?? ()
  #7  0x0000000000403fc5 in ?? ()
  #8  0x00007ffff751cec5 in __libc_start_main (main=0x403ae0, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe528, init=<optimized out>, 
      fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe518) at libc-start.c:287
  #9  0x00000000004049ff in ?? ()

  
  This is causing issues with other drivers that use lshw to report system information.

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