[3.16.y-ckt extended stable] Patch "pstore: Fix duplicate {console, ftrace}-efi entries" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 10 11:32:09 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
pstore: Fix duplicate {console,ftrace}-efi entries
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt1.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From c712af0a0fa9e8962ca0e350c7045a172bab0424 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:09:08 -0400
Subject: pstore: Fix duplicate {console,ftrace}-efi entries
commit d4bf205da618bbd0b038e404d646f14e76915718 upstream.
The pstore filesystem still creates duplicate filename/inode pairs for
some pstore types. Add the id to the filename to prevent that.
Before patch:
[/sys/fs/pstore] ls -li
total 0
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
After:
[/sys/fs/pstore] ls -li
total 0
1232 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi-141202499100000
1231 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi-141202499200000
1230 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 17:44 console-efi-141202705400000
1229 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:44 console-efi-141202705500000
1228 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 20:42 console-efi-141203772600000
1227 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 23:42 console-efi-141204854900000
1226 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 23:42 console-efi-141204855000000
1225 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 23:59 console-efi-141204954200000
1224 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 23:59 console-efi-141204954400000
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
fs/pstore/inode.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index 192297b0090d..fafb7a02a5d6 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -320,10 +320,10 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char *psname, u64 id, int count,
compressed ? ".enc.z" : "");
break;
case PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE:
- sprintf(name, "console-%s", psname);
+ sprintf(name, "console-%s-%lld", psname, id);
break;
case PSTORE_TYPE_FTRACE:
- sprintf(name, "ftrace-%s", psname);
+ sprintf(name, "ftrace-%s-%lld", psname, id);
break;
case PSTORE_TYPE_MCE:
sprintf(name, "mce-%s-%lld", psname, id);
--
2.1.0
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