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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Aleksandr Yashkin <a.yashkin@inango-systems.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4.9.z] pstore/ram: Write new dumps to start of recycled zones
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 13:58:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200107185800.GB1706@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202001071023.9BFD4C51@keescook>

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 10:25:16AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>From: Aleksandr Yashkin <a.yashkin@inango-systems.com>
>
>[ Upstream commit 9e5f1c19800b808a37fb9815a26d382132c26c3d ]
>
>The ram_core.c routines treat przs as circular buffers. When writing a
>new crash dump, the old buffer needs to be cleared so that the new dump
>doesn't end up in the wrong place (i.e. at the end).
>
>The solution to this problem is to reset the circular buffer state before
>writing a new Oops dump.
>
>Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Yashkin <a.yashkin@inango-systems.com>
>Signed-off-by: Nikolay Merinov <n.merinov@inango-systems.com>
>Signed-off-by: Ariel Gilman <a.gilman@inango-systems.com>
>Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191223133816.28155-1-n.merinov@inango-systems.com
>Fixes: 896fc1f0c4c6 ("pstore/ram: Switch to persistent_ram routines")
>[kees: backport to v4.9]
>Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/157831399811194@kroah.com
>Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Thanks Kees, I've queued both this and the 4.4 patch up.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-07 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-07 18:25 [PATCH v4.9.z] pstore/ram: Write new dumps to start of recycled zones Kees Cook
2020-01-07 18:58 ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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