[PATCH 6.18 006/227] Drivers: hv: Always do Hyper-V panic notification in hv_kmsg_dump()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-28T15:51:49Z

From: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>

[ Upstream commit 49f49d47af67f8a7b221db1d758fc634242dc91a ]

hv_kmsg_dump() currently skips the panic notification entirely if it
doesn't get any message bytes to pass to Hyper-V due to an error from
kmsg_dump_get_buffer(). Skipping the notification is undesirable because
it leaves the Hyper-V host uncertain about the state of a panic'ed guest.

Fix this by always doing the panic notification, even if bytes_written
is zero. Also ensure that bytes_written is initialized, which fixes a
kernel test robot warning. The warning is actually bogus because
kmsg_dump_get_buffer() happens to set bytes_written even if it fails, and
in the kernel test robot's CONFIG_PRINTK not set case, hv_kmsg_dump() is
never called. But do the initialization for robustness and to quiet the
static checker.

Fixes: 9c318a1d9b50 ("Drivers: hv: move panic report code from vmbus to hv early init code")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202512172103.OcUspn1Z-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kisel <vdso@mailbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/hv/hv_common.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_common.c b/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
index e109a620c83fc..71fd3ea4fa8bd 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_common.c
@@ -195,13 +195,15 @@ static void hv_kmsg_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,

/*
* Write dump contents to the page. No need to synchronize; panic should
- * be single-threaded.
+ * be single-threaded. Ignore failures from kmsg_dump_get_buffer() since
+ * panic notification should be done even if there is no message data.
+ * Don't assume bytes_written is set in case of failure, so initialize it.
*/
kmsg_dump_rewind(&iter);
- kmsg_dump_get_buffer(&iter, false, hv_panic_page, HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE,
+ bytes_written = 0;
+ (void)kmsg_dump_get_buffer(&iter, false, hv_panic_page, HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE,
&bytes_written);
- if (!bytes_written)
- return;
+
/*
* P3 to contain the physical address of the panic page & P4 to
* contain the size of the panic data in that page. Rest of the
@@ -210,7 +212,7 @@ static void hv_kmsg_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
hv_set_msr(HV_MSR_CRASH_P0, 0);
hv_set_msr(HV_MSR_CRASH_P1, 0);
hv_set_msr(HV_MSR_CRASH_P2, 0);
- hv_set_msr(HV_MSR_CRASH_P3, virt_to_phys(hv_panic_page));
+ hv_set_msr(HV_MSR_CRASH_P3, bytes_written ? virt_to_phys(hv_panic_page) : 0);
hv_set_msr(HV_MSR_CRASH_P4, bytes_written);

/*
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