Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> writes: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2014 01:07:29 +0000 "Pearson, Greg" <greg.pear...@hp.com> wrote: > >> As far as I know the only consequence of dropping a PT_NOTE entry is >> that it would not be available in the crash dump for use in debugging. >> I'm not sure how important this data might be for triage. I'm guessing >> that in cases where one of these strange PT_NOTE entries shows up with a >> size that causes an overflow it probably isn't even a real PT_NOTE entry >> so dropping it won't matter, but that's a guess at this point since I'm >> still trying to figure out how the bogus entries were created. > > Can we detect the crazy-huge notes, skip them and then proceed with > the following sanely-sized ones?
The only way we can have following sanely-sized notes is if they are in a separate note segment (one of our extensions for kdump and /proc/vmcore merges them together). Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
