From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6F367C2BD09 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:27:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=vKOBxgEwAEVgxUr1dfeJhdrP86woIu+a4/4H4Y7fRNg=; b=HPuMnbQUSx/CQ/ xfXKHDbDXuL86Hv+nW6vYyoDbONnnxfNDJ5PKvGhONwB9qeXXMXmCpC1Ow4MsRnVHRFqYexzlv9VG Rab2Nu/y8wepAawziC9wouNAwWxRhY/mOlvMC4UJgP9IOaV67AT0UPMDYN7jkCEsWiEcvRLIj5xxE dGLJXkahwfOEEg5kX25bfaFltKaD113cJmdrWujKWwbHDVv060eDgLKaHpg6TM9KLTLjrG9nACfhq q1UQT/5RJFZJVwPJoqGSDhdbPmcOc8Q1fBmJo7YOTeEk+zz2US2C6rJPNK3vlelhaIcQa5Vn0iz7O ibmp7nNLavjWApsBWpRQ==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1sP2p6-0000000Ar3L-2mLV; Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:27:12 +0000 Received: from sin.source.kernel.org ([2604:1380:40e1:4800::1]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1sP2p3-0000000Ar2S-1MqC for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:27:11 +0000 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (transwarp.subspace.kernel.org [100.75.92.58]) by sin.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6510ECE2D2B; Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:27:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6EC89C2BD10; Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:27:05 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1720024025; bh=iqYxlC1bhe/7ALpkNeE5phKu3N9aTBnG3R0HukiaLws=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Rwd9e7kliYyzi9FQPgDbHOkyrNE+y0jJRVWnOdmXhAkVOD1ALZD0O10DjNWFdt3yC ofb8OUs3AK4tJ1ETzauW/+3t+eb/4uqnz3ZVD6XWlRjMjQGvlP8UR9uBfs+9//130N CeN/pC1bgOCnO1VB1B+hlwcVy289AeM/esB0ht8j55bH9Y8nSprZ7wpAtbvdTbz9AL iL/UQJKak4mdUS3H81Mn47L1q38rjm7FaAXhIo9ngCEgZjFb3ikj1ZDBhqbVK8SiJr HZg0QGdZ9zMNJD8lbhhVjPqYxuorXhgrPYWZkHunA9J73aHALa3eQQyUQIz2HvRh3j HNWAuSbLQR1RA== Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 09:27:04 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: Petr Mladek Cc: Jocelyn Falempe , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , "Naveen N. Rao" , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Daniel Vetter , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Haiyang Zhang , Wei Liu , Dexuan Cui , Miquel Raynal , Richard Weinberger , Vignesh Raghavendra , Tony Luck , "Guilherme G. Piccoli" , Steven Rostedt , John Ogness , Sergey Senozhatsky , Andrew Morton , Jani Nikula , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kefeng Wang , Thomas Gleixner , Uros Bizjak , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] printk: Add a short description string to kmsg_dump() Message-ID: <202407030926.D5DA9B901D@keescook> References: <20240702122639.248110-1-jfalempe@redhat.com> <202407021326.E75B8EA@keescook> <10ea2ea1-e692-443e-8b48-ce9884e8b942@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20240703_092709_739408_488A002D X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 37.18 ) X-BeenThere: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+linux-mtd=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 10:22:11AM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > On Wed 2024-07-03 09:57:26, Jocelyn Falempe wrote: > > > > > > On 02/07/2024 22:29, Kees Cook wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 02:26:04PM +0200, Jocelyn Falempe wrote: > > > > kmsg_dump doesn't forward the panic reason string to the kmsg_dumper > > > > callback. > > > > This patch adds a new struct kmsg_dump_detail, that will hold the > > > > reason and description, and pass it to the dump() callback. > > > > > > Thanks! I like this much better. :) > > > > > > > > > > > To avoid updating all kmsg_dump() call, it adds a kmsg_dump_desc() > > > > function and a macro for backward compatibility. > > > > > > > > I've written this for drm_panic, but it can be useful for other > > > > kmsg_dumper. > > > > It allows to see the panic reason, like "sysrq triggered crash" > > > > or "VFS: Unable to mount root fs on xxxx" on the drm panic screen. > > > > > > > > v2: > > > > * Use a struct kmsg_dump_detail to hold the reason and description > > > > pointer, for more flexibility if we want to add other parameters. > > > > (Kees Cook) > > > > * Fix powerpc/nvram_64 build, as I didn't update the forward > > > > declaration of oops_to_nvram() > > > > > > The versioning history commonly goes after the "---". > > > > ok, I was not aware of this. > > > > > > > [...] > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h > > > > index 906521c2329c..65f5a47727bc 100644 > > > > --- a/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h > > > > +++ b/include/linux/kmsg_dump.h > > > > @@ -39,6 +39,17 @@ struct kmsg_dump_iter { > > > > u64 next_seq; > > > > }; > > > > +/** > > > > + *struct kmsg_dump_detail - kernel crash detail > > > > > > Is kern-doc happy with this? I think there is supposed to be a space > > > between the "*" and the first word: > > > > > > /** > > > * struct kmsg... > > > > > > > > Good catch, yes there is a space missing. > > > > I just checked with "make htmldocs", and in fact include/linux/kmsg_dump.h > > is not indexed for kernel documentation. > > And you can't find the definition of struct kmsg_dumper in the online doc. > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/search.html?q=kmsg_dumper > > > > > Otherwise looks good to me! > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > As this patch touches different subsystems, do you know on which tree it > > should land ? > > Andrew usually takes patches against kernel/panic.c. > > Or you could take it via the DRM tree, especially if you already have the code > using the string. > > Also I could take it via the printk tree. The only complication is > that I am going to be away the following two weeks and would come > back in the middle of the merge window. I do not expect much problems > with this change but... If DRM doesn't want to carry it, I can put it in through the pstore tree. Let me know! :) -- Kees Cook ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/