Re: [PATCH 1/6] kexec: Export vmcoreinfo note size properly

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:50:46PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Right now we seem to be exporting the max data size contained inside
> vmcoreinfo note. But this does not include the size of meta data around
> vmcore info data. Like name of the note and starting and ending elf_note.
> 
> I think user space expects total size and that size is put in PT_NOTE
> elf header.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/ksysfs.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

This should go into 3.13, right?

Nice fix.

greg k-h
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