On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 11:37:51AM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:56 AM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ramoops's call of pstore_register() was recently moved to run during
> > late_initcall() because the crypto backend may not have been ready during
> > postcore_initcall(). This meant early-boot crash dumps were not getting
> > caught by pstore any more.
> >
> > Instead, lets allow calls to pstore_register() earlier, and once crypto
> > is ready we can initialize the compression.
> >
> > Reported-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: cb3bee0369bc ("pstore: Use crypto compress API")
> > [kees: trivial rebase]
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/pstore/platform.c | 10 +++++++++-
> > fs/pstore/ram.c | 2 +-
> > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> I'd propose that these three patches:
>
> 95047b0519c1 pstore: Refactor compression initialization
> 416031653eb5 pstore: Allocate compression during late_initcall()
> cb095afd4476 pstore: Centralize init/exit routines
>
> Get sent to linux-stable. Specifically I'll mention that 4.19 needs
> it. IMO the regression of pstore not catching early boot crashes is
> pretty serious IMO.
So just those 3 commits and not this specific patch from Joel?
thanks,
greg k-h
