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author | Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com> | 2018-07-19 12:13:45 +0300 |
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committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2018-07-31 18:43:43 +0300 |
commit | 8cce437fbb5c1f2af2f63834fa05082596beca5d (patch) | |
tree | 9350eed87fba41b5f7fee8744a079040cba4b6ae /Documentation/admin-guide | |
parent | 5223c671674c507cc9bcabdfc5a9b449c178330a (diff) | |
download | linux-8cce437fbb5c1f2af2f63834fa05082596beca5d.tar.xz |
s390/kdump: Fix elfcorehdr size calculation
Before the memory for the elfcorehdr is allocated the required size is
estimated with
alloc_size = 0x1000 + get_cpu_cnt() * 0x4a0 +
mem_chunk_cnt * sizeof(Elf64_Phdr);
Where 0x4a0 is used as size for the ELF notes to store the register
contend. This size is 8 bytes too small. Usually this does not immediately
cause a problem because the page reserved for overhead (Elf_Ehdr,
vmcoreinfo, etc.) is pretty generous. So usually there is enough spare
memory to counter the mis-calculated per cpu size. However, with growing
overhead and/or a huge cpu count the allocated size gets too small for the
elfcorehdr. Ultimately a BUG_ON is triggered causing the crash kernel to
panic.
Fix this by properly calculating the required size instead of relying on
magic numbers.
Fixes: a62bc07392539 ("s390/kdump: add support for vector extension")
Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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