On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 8:18 AM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 2:51 AM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 4:37 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > One variant would be to revert the original patch, put its
> > > (hopefully) fixed variant into -next and let it sit there for
> > > a while. Another is to put this incremental into -next and
> > > merge it into mainline once it gets a sane amount of testing.
> >
> > Just do the incremental fix. It looks obvious enough ("oops, we need
> > to get the pos _after_ we've done any skip-lseeks on the core file")
> > that I think it would be just harder to follow a "revert and follow up
> > with a fix".
> >
> > I don't think it needs a ton of extra testing, with Okajima having
> > already confirmed it fixes his problem case..
> >
> > Linus
>
> [ CC Geert ]
>
> There was another patch from Geert concerning the same coredump changes:
>
> [PATCH] coredump: Move dump_emit_page() to kill unused warning
>
> If CONFIG_ELF_CORE is not set:
>
> fs/coredump.c:835:12: error: ‘dump_emit_page’ defined but not used
> [-Werror=unused-function]
> 835 | static int dump_emit_page(struct coredump_params *cprm,
> struct page *page)
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Fix this by moving dump_emit_page() inside the existing section
> protected by #ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE.
>
> Fixes: 06bbaa6dc53cb720 ("[coredump] don't use __kernel_write() on
> kmap_local_page()")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Please, check yourself!
>
> Best regards,
> -Sedat-
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221003090657.2053236-1-geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[ CC Ren Zhijie <renzhijie2@xxxxxxxxxx> ]
Looks like the same patch as of Geert.
-Sedat-
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221009092420.32850-1-renzhijie2@xxxxxxxxxx/
