From: Michael Ellerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Because the SPU coredump code might be built as part of a module (spufs),
we have a stub which is called by the coredump code, this routine then calls
into spufs if it's loaded.
Unfortunately the stub returns -ENOSYS if spufs is not loaded, which is
interpreted by the coredump code as an extra note size of -38 bytes. This
leads to a corrupt core dump.
If spufs is not loaded there will be no SPU ELF notes to write, and so the
extra notes size will be == 0.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_coredump.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_coredump.c
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_coredump.c
index 4fd37ff..656a8c5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_coredump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_coredump.c
@@ -31,15 +31,19 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(spu_coredump_mutex);
int arch_notes_size(void)
{
- long ret;
+ int ret;
- ret = -ENOSYS;
mutex_lock(&spu_coredump_mutex);
+
if (spu_coredump_calls && try_module_get(spu_coredump_calls->owner)) {
ret = spu_coredump_calls->arch_notes_size();
module_put(spu_coredump_calls->owner);
+ } else {
+ ret = 0;
}
+
mutex_unlock(&spu_coredump_mutex);
+
return ret;
}
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