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author | Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com> | 2020-05-21 00:54:36 +0200 |
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committer | Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com> | 2020-05-21 00:54:36 +0200 |
commit | 135d39dcedcedd1f44ea0bba52f15ac5922c114f (patch) | |
tree | 12379fc8ef7489eaca1c7245f8bd6af74c619a8f /fs/pstore/ram.c | |
parent | 187764bd111b27783b6d68ffb3b3dbb3a9bafd38 (diff) | |
parent | 1279cd128bba968ebe0a2df7f7ae38bae90250ef (diff) |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/fslc/4.9-2.3.x-imx' into toradex_4.9-2.3.x-imx-next
Conflicts:
sound/soc/codecs/sgtl5000.c
sound/soc/fsl/imx-sgtl5000.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pstore/ram.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/pstore/ram.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c index 8b09271e5d66..a73959e6ae32 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c @@ -321,6 +321,17 @@ static int notrace ramoops_pstore_write_buf(enum pstore_type_id type, prz = cxt->przs[cxt->dump_write_cnt]; + /* + * Since this is a new crash dump, we need to reset the buffer in + * case it still has an old dump present. Without this, the new dump + * will get appended, which would seriously confuse anything trying + * to check dump file contents. Specifically, ramoops_read_kmsg_hdr() + * expects to find a dump header in the beginning of buffer data, so + * we must to reset the buffer values, in order to ensure that the + * header will be written to the beginning of the buffer. + */ + persistent_ram_zap(prz); + hlen = ramoops_write_kmsg_hdr(prz, compressed); if (size + hlen > prz->buffer_size) size = prz->buffer_size - hlen; |