Crash tool will fail to load vmcore with the following error: #crash vmlinux /var/crash/127.0.0.1-2023-06-07-22\:03\:24/vmcore -s crash: invalid structure size: note_buf FILE: diskdump.c LINE: 121 FUNCTION: have_crash_notes() [./crash] error trace: 101859ac => 10291798 => 10291450 => 10266038 10266038: SIZE_verify+156 10291450: have_crash_notes+308 10291798: map_cpus_to_prstatus_kdump_cmprs+448 101859ac: task_init+11980 The reason is that the note_buf is not intialized before using the SIZE(note_buf) in the have_crash_notes(). Let's initialize the variable note_buf in the ppc64_init() to fix this issue. Fixes: db8c030857b4 ("diskdump/netdump: fix segmentation fault caused by failure of stopping CPUs") Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- ppc64.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/ppc64.c b/ppc64.c index b95a621d8fe4..ff7f0fca3a95 100644 --- a/ppc64.c +++ b/ppc64.c @@ -695,6 +695,7 @@ ppc64_init(int when) } ppc64_init_paca_info(); + STRUCT_SIZE_INIT(note_buf, "note_buf_t"); if (!machdep->hz) { machdep->hz = HZ; -- 2.37.1 -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility Contribution Guidelines: https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/wiki