Re: [PATCH v2] pstore/ram: Improve backward compatibility with older Chromebooks

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed May 08 2019 - 14:11:25 EST


On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 8:49 AM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When you try to run an upstream kernel on an old ARM-based Chromebook
> you'll find that console-ramoops doesn't work.
>
> Old ARM-based Chromebooks, before <https://crrev.com/c/439792>
> ("ramoops: support upstream {console,pmsg,ftrace}-size properties")
> used to create a "ramoops" node at the top level that looked like:
>
> / {
> ramoops {
> compatible = "ramoops";
> reg = <...>;
> record-size = <...>;
> dump-oops;
> };
> };
>
> ...and these Chromebooks assumed that the downstream kernel would make
> console_size / pmsg_size match the record size. The above ramoops
> node was added by the firmware so it's not easy to make any changes.
>
> Let's match the expected behavior, but only for those using the old
> backward-compatible way of working where ramoops is right under the
> root node.
>
> NOTE: if there are some out-of-tree devices that had ramoops at the
> top level, left everything but the record size as 0, and somehow
> doesn't want this behavior, we can try to add more conditions here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks! I've applied this to my testing tree and I'll push to Linus in
a couple days.

-Kees

> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - s/mimicing/mimicking/ (Brian Norris)
> - Slight rewording of the comment (Brian Norris)
> - Check name rather than relying on of_node_is_root() (Frank Rowand)
>
> fs/pstore/ram.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> index c5c685589e36..5195a3a3daec 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
> +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> @@ -669,6 +669,7 @@ static int ramoops_parse_dt(struct platform_device *pdev,
> struct ramoops_platform_data *pdata)
> {
> struct device_node *of_node = pdev->dev.of_node;
> + struct device_node *parent_node;
> struct resource *res;
> u32 value;
> int ret;
> @@ -703,6 +704,26 @@ static int ramoops_parse_dt(struct platform_device *pdev,
>
> #undef parse_size
>
> + /*
> + * Some old Chromebooks relied on the kernel setting the
> + * console_size and pmsg_size to the record size since that's
> + * what the downstream kernel did. These same Chromebooks had
> + * "ramoops" straight under the root node which isn't
> + * according to the current upstream bindings (though it was
> + * arguably acceptable under a prior version of the bindings).
> + * Let's make those old Chromebooks work by detecting that
> + * we're not a child of "reserved-memory" and mimicking the
> + * expected behavior.
> + */
> + parent_node = of_get_parent(of_node);
> + if (!of_node_name_eq(parent_node, "reserved-memory") &&
> + !pdata->console_size && !pdata->ftrace_size &&
> + !pdata->pmsg_size && !pdata->ecc_info.ecc_size) {
> + pdata->console_size = pdata->record_size;
> + pdata->pmsg_size = pdata->record_size;
> + }
> + of_node_put(parent_node);
> +
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 2.21.0.1020.gf2820cf01a-goog
>