From b42bb8c1b2aa24744614ed322fe43b7af5d54b7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aleksandr Yashkin Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:25:16 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] pstore/ram: Write new dumps to start of recycled zones [ 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 Signed-off-by: Nikolay Merinov Signed-off-by: Ariel Gilman 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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- fs/pstore/ram.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c index 8b09271e5d66..a73959e6ae32 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c @@ -321,6 +321,17 @@ static int notrace ramoops_pstore_write_buf(enum pstore_type_id type, prz = cxt->przs[cxt->dump_write_cnt]; + /* + * Since this is a new crash dump, we need to reset the buffer in + * case it still has an old dump present. Without this, the new dump + * will get appended, which would seriously confuse anything trying + * to check dump file contents. Specifically, ramoops_read_kmsg_hdr() + * expects to find a dump header in the beginning of buffer data, so + * we must to reset the buffer values, in order to ensure that the + * header will be written to the beginning of the buffer. + */ + persistent_ram_zap(prz); + hlen = ramoops_write_kmsg_hdr(prz, compressed); if (size + hlen > prz->buffer_size) size = prz->buffer_size - hlen;