Commit a084aeef authored by Michael Holzheu's avatar Michael Holzheu Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE"

commit a4a81d8e upstream.

In binutils/libbfd (bfd/elf.c) it is enforced that all s390 specific ELF
notes like e.g. NT_S390_PREFIX or NT_S390_CTRS have "LINUX" specified
as note name. Otherwise the notes are ignored.

For /proc/vmcore we currently use "CORE" for these notes.

Up to now this has not been a real problem because the dump analysis tool
"crash" does not check the note name. But it will break all programs that
use libbfd for processing ELF notes.

So fix this and use "LINUX" for all s390 specific notes to comply with
libbfd.
Reported-by: default avatarPhilipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent b0e85701
......@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
#define PTR_SUB(x, y) (((char *) (x)) - ((unsigned long) (y)))
#define PTR_DIFF(x, y) ((unsigned long)(((char *) (x)) - ((unsigned long) (y))))
#define LINUX_NOTE_NAME "LINUX"
static struct memblock_region oldmem_region;
static struct memblock_type oldmem_type = {
......@@ -312,7 +314,7 @@ static void *nt_fpregset(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
static void *nt_s390_timer(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
{
return nt_init(ptr, NT_S390_TIMER, &sa->timer, sizeof(sa->timer),
KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME);
LINUX_NOTE_NAME);
}
/*
......@@ -321,7 +323,7 @@ static void *nt_s390_timer(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
static void *nt_s390_tod_cmp(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
{
return nt_init(ptr, NT_S390_TODCMP, &sa->clk_cmp,
sizeof(sa->clk_cmp), KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME);
sizeof(sa->clk_cmp), LINUX_NOTE_NAME);
}
/*
......@@ -330,7 +332,7 @@ static void *nt_s390_tod_cmp(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
static void *nt_s390_tod_preg(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
{
return nt_init(ptr, NT_S390_TODPREG, &sa->tod_reg,
sizeof(sa->tod_reg), KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME);
sizeof(sa->tod_reg), LINUX_NOTE_NAME);
}
/*
......@@ -339,7 +341,7 @@ static void *nt_s390_tod_preg(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
static void *nt_s390_ctrs(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
{
return nt_init(ptr, NT_S390_CTRS, &sa->ctrl_regs,
sizeof(sa->ctrl_regs), KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME);
sizeof(sa->ctrl_regs), LINUX_NOTE_NAME);
}
/*
......@@ -348,7 +350,7 @@ static void *nt_s390_ctrs(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
static void *nt_s390_prefix(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
{
return nt_init(ptr, NT_S390_PREFIX, &sa->pref_reg,
sizeof(sa->pref_reg), KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME);
sizeof(sa->pref_reg), LINUX_NOTE_NAME);
}
/*
......@@ -357,7 +359,7 @@ static void *nt_s390_prefix(void *ptr, struct save_area *sa)
static void *nt_s390_vx_high(void *ptr, __vector128 *vx_regs)
{
return nt_init(ptr, NT_S390_VXRS_HIGH, &vx_regs[16],
16 * sizeof(__vector128), KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME);
16 * sizeof(__vector128), LINUX_NOTE_NAME);
}
/*
......@@ -370,12 +372,12 @@ static void *nt_s390_vx_low(void *ptr, __vector128 *vx_regs)
int i;
note = (Elf64_Nhdr *)ptr;
note->n_namesz = strlen(KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME) + 1;
note->n_namesz = strlen(LINUX_NOTE_NAME) + 1;
note->n_descsz = 16 * 8;
note->n_type = NT_S390_VXRS_LOW;
len = sizeof(Elf64_Nhdr);
memcpy(ptr + len, KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME, note->n_namesz);
memcpy(ptr + len, LINUX_NOTE_NAME, note->n_namesz);
len = roundup(len + note->n_namesz, 4);
ptr += len;
......
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