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From: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] pstore: add pstore unregister
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:52:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151021025255.GA7402@ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5j+Vt1QiETqPNTTnZqV_UNpAbcvRvdLM1n8NWinu3oz2bw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:56:54PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >> Thanks for looking to close out this TODO item.
> >>
> >> The thing that scared me about unloading pstore was what happens to
> >> a process that is in the middle of reading some /sys/fs/pstore/file-name-here
> 
> Were you able to verify that this reading-while-rmmod case works correctly?
> 
> -Kees

$ sudo insmod zlib_deflate.ko
$ sudo insmod pstore.ko
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
pstore                 11225  0
zlib_deflate           18292  1 pstore

$ sudo mount -t pstore pstore /sys/fs/pstore
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
pstore                 11225  1
zlib_deflate           18292  1 pstore

$ sudo insmod reed_solomon.ko
$ sudo insmod ramoops.ko mem_address=0x40000000 mem_size=0x400000
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ramoops                 9638  0
reed_solomon            5150  1 ramoops
pstore                 11225  2 ramoops
zlib_deflate           18292  1 pstore

$ tail -f /sys/fs/pstore/console-ramoops-0 &
[1] 3483
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ramoops                 9638  0
reed_solomon            5150  1 ramoops
pstore                 11225  3 ramoops
zlib_deflate           18292  1 pstore

$ kill -9 3483
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ramoops                 9638  0
reed_solomon            5150  1 ramoops
pstore                 11225  2 ramoops
zlib_deflate           18292  1 pstore

$ sudo rmmod ramoops
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
reed_solomon            5150  0
pstore                 11225  1
zlib_deflate           18292  1 pstore

$ sudo umount /sys/fs/pstore/
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
reed_solomon            5150  0 
pstore                 11225  0 
zlib_deflate           18292  1 pstore

$ sudo rmmod pstore
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
reed_solomon            5150  0 
zlib_deflate           18292  0

Thanks.
Geliang Tang


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-21  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-16 15:25 [PATCH 1/3] pstore: add vmalloc error check Geliang Tang
2015-10-16 15:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] pstore: add a helper function pstore_register_kmsg Geliang Tang
2015-10-16 15:25   ` [PATCH 3/3] pstore: add 'rmmod ramoops' support Geliang Tang
2015-10-16 15:50     ` Kees Cook
2015-10-18 10:49       ` [PATCH v2 0/3] pstore: add pstore unregister Geliang Tang
2015-10-18 10:49         ` [PATCH v2 1/3] pstore: add vmalloc error check Geliang Tang
2015-10-18 10:49           ` [PATCH v2 2/3] pstore: add a helper function pstore_register_kmsg Geliang Tang
2015-10-18 10:49             ` [PATCH v2 3/3] pstore: add pstore unregister Geliang Tang
2015-10-19 22:56               ` Luck, Tony
2015-10-20  7:39                 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] " Geliang Tang
2015-10-20  7:39                   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] pstore: add vmalloc error check Geliang Tang
2015-10-20  7:39                     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] pstore: add a helper function pstore_register_kmsg Geliang Tang
2015-10-20  7:39                       ` [PATCH v3 3/3] pstore: add pstore unregister Geliang Tang
2015-10-20 17:19                   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] " Kees Cook
2015-10-21  2:52                     ` Geliang Tang [this message]
2015-10-21  3:01                       ` Kees Cook
2015-10-21  4:11                         ` Geliang Tang
2015-10-21 16:38                           ` Luck, Tony

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