This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE" to the 4.10-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: s390-kdump-use-linux-elf-note-name-instead-of-core.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a4a81d8eebdc1d209d034f62a082a5131e4242b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 18:09:14 +0100 Subject: s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE" From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a4a81d8eebdc1d209d034f62a082a5131e4242b5 upstream. In binutils/libbfd (bfd/elf.c) it is enforced that all s390 specific ELF notes like e.g. NT_S390_PREFIX or NT_S390_CTRS have "LINUX" specified as note name. Otherwise the notes are ignored. For /proc/vmcore we currently use "CORE" for these notes. Up to now this has not been a real problem because the dump analysis tool "crash" does not check the note name. But it will break all programs that use libbfd for processing ELF notes. So fix this and use "LINUX" for all s390 specific notes to comply with libbfd. Reported-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c @@ -329,7 +329,11 @@ static void *nt_init_name(void *buf, Elf static inline void *nt_init(void *buf, Elf64_Word type, void *desc, int d_len) { - return nt_init_name(buf, type, desc, d_len, KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME); + const char *note_name = "LINUX"; + + if (type == NT_PRPSINFO || type == NT_PRSTATUS || type == NT_PRFPREG) + note_name = KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME; + return nt_init_name(buf, type, desc, d_len, note_name); } /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/s390-kdump-use-linux-elf-note-name-instead-of-core.patch