From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit b77fa617a2ff4d6beccad3d3d4b3a1f2d10368aa upstream. Since the console writer does not use the preallocated crash dump buffer any more, there is no reason to perform locking around it. Fixes: 70ad35db3321 ("pstore: Convert console write to use ->write_buf") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/pstore/platform.c | 29 ++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) --- a/fs/pstore/platform.c +++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c @@ -597,31 +597,14 @@ static void pstore_unregister_kmsg(void) #ifdef CONFIG_PSTORE_CONSOLE static void pstore_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned c) { - const char *e = s + c; + struct pstore_record record; - while (s < e) { - struct pstore_record record; - unsigned long flags; + pstore_record_init(&record, psinfo); + record.type = PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE; - pstore_record_init(&record, psinfo); - record.type = PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE; - - if (c > psinfo->bufsize) - c = psinfo->bufsize; - - if (oops_in_progress) { - if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags)) - break; - } else { - spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags); - } - record.buf = (char *)s; - record.size = c; - psinfo->write(&record); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags); - s += c; - c = e - s; - } + record.buf = (char *)s; + record.size = c; + psinfo->write(&record); } static struct console pstore_console = {