This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtd: mtdoops: Don't write panic data twice to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mtd-mtdoops-don-t-write-panic-data-twice.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 129384a1a864cb84251251da6a946652c69ddea1 Author: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Sep 3 15:42:17 2020 +1200 mtd: mtdoops: Don't write panic data twice [ Upstream commit c1cf1d57d1492235309111ea6a900940213a9166 ] If calling mtdoops_write, don't also schedule work to be done later. Although this appears to not be causing an issue, possibly because the scheduled work will never get done, it is confusing. Fixes: 016c1291ce70 ("mtd: mtdoops: do not use mtd->panic_write directly") Signed-off-by: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20200903034217.23079-1-mark.tomlinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c index 4ced68be7ed7e..774970bfcf859 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c @@ -279,12 +279,13 @@ static void mtdoops_do_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper, kmsg_dump_get_buffer(dumper, true, cxt->oops_buf + MTDOOPS_HEADER_SIZE, record_size - MTDOOPS_HEADER_SIZE, NULL); - /* Panics must be written immediately */ - if (reason != KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) + if (reason != KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) { + /* Panics must be written immediately */ mtdoops_write(cxt, 1); - - /* For other cases, schedule work to write it "nicely" */ - schedule_work(&cxt->work_write); + } else { + /* For other cases, schedule work to write it "nicely" */ + schedule_work(&cxt->work_write); + } } static void mtdoops_notify_add(struct mtd_info *mtd)