Re: [PATCH 1/2] pstore: avoid incorrectly mark entry as duplicate

From: Madper Xie
Date: Wed Oct 30 2013 - 10:51:29 EST



seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Madper Xie [mailto:cxie@xxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 5:45 AM
>> To: tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx; keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx; ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx; anton@xxxxxxxxxx; Seiji Aguchi
>> Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bbboson@xxxxxxxxx; Madper Xie
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] pstore: avoid incorrectly mark entry as duplicate
>>
>> From: Madper Xie <bbboson@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> pstore try to find duplicate entries by check both ID, type and psi.
>> They are not really enough for efi backend. dumped vars always have
>> the same type, psi and ID. like follows:
>> dump-type0-9-1-1382511508-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
>> dump-type0-9-1-1382515661-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
>>
>> The "duplicate" entries won't appear in pstorefs. And a complain will be
>> print -- pstore: failed to load 76 record(s) from 'efi'
>> So I add two more checks: timespec and count.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Madper Xie <cxie@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks good to me.
> Acked-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx>
>
> But, this patch has to be tested by other backend drivers like erst and ramoops.
> In my understanding, erst has supported to log multiple events.
> So, I'm interested why the same error hasn't happened in the other drivers.
>
> Seiji
Thanks for your review. I'll try to test other backends. :-)
>
>> ---
>> fs/pstore/inode.c | 6 +++++-
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
>> index 1282384..0ae994c 100644
>> --- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
>> +++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
>> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(allpstore);
>> struct pstore_private {
>> struct list_head list;
>> struct pstore_info *psi;
>> + struct timespec time;
>> enum pstore_type_id type;
>> u64 id;
>> int count;
>> @@ -290,7 +291,9 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char *psname, u64 id, int count,
>> list_for_each_entry(pos, &allpstore, list) {
>> if (pos->type == type &&
>> pos->id == id &&
>> - pos->psi == psi) {
>> + pos->psi == psi &&
>> + pos->count == count &&
>> + !timespec_compare(&pos->time, &time)) {
>> rc = -EEXIST;
>> break;
>> }
>> @@ -312,6 +315,7 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char *psname, u64 id, int count,
>> private->id = id;
>> private->count = count;
>> private->psi = psi;
>> + memcpy(&private->time, &time, sizeof(struct timespec));
>>
>> switch (type) {
>> case PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG:
>> --
>> 1.8.4.2


--
Best,
Madper Xie.
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