Patch "kdump: write correct address of mem_section into vmcoreinfo" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kdump: write correct address of mem_section into vmcoreinfo

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kdump-write-correct-address-of-mem_section-into-vmcoreinfo.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a0b1280368d1e91ab72f849ef095b4f07a39bbf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:53:14 -0800
Subject: kdump: write correct address of mem_section into vmcoreinfo

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

commit a0b1280368d1e91ab72f849ef095b4f07a39bbf1 upstream.

Depending on configuration mem_section can now be an array or a pointer
to an array allocated dynamically.  In most cases, we can continue to
refer to it as 'mem_section' regardless of what it is.

But there's one exception: '&mem_section' means "address of the array"
if mem_section is an array, but if mem_section is a pointer, it would
mean "address of the pointer".

We've stepped onto this in kdump code.  VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(mem_section)
writes down address of pointer into vmcoreinfo, not array as we wanted.

Let's introduce VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL_ARRAY() that would handle the
situation correctly for both cases.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180112162532.35896-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y")
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/crash_core.h |    2 ++
 kernel/crash_core.c        |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/crash_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/crash_core.h
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ phys_addr_t paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void);
 	vmcoreinfo_append_str("PAGESIZE=%ld\n", value)
 #define VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(name) \
 	vmcoreinfo_append_str("SYMBOL(%s)=%lx\n", #name, (unsigned long)&name)
+#define VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL_ARRAY(name) \
+	vmcoreinfo_append_str("SYMBOL(%s)=%lx\n", #name, (unsigned long)name)
 #define VMCOREINFO_SIZE(name) \
 	vmcoreinfo_append_str("SIZE(%s)=%lu\n", #name, \
 			      (unsigned long)sizeof(name))
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_
 	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(contig_page_data);
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
-	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(mem_section);
+	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL_ARRAY(mem_section);
 	VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(mem_section, NR_SECTION_ROOTS);
 	VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(mem_section);
 	VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(mem_section, section_mem_map);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.14/kdump-write-correct-address-of-mem_section-into-vmcoreinfo.patch