This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pstore: Fix duplicate {console,ftrace}-efi entries to the 3.10-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: pstore-fix-duplicate-console-ftrace-efi-entries.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d4bf205da618bbd0b038e404d646f14e76915718 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:09:08 -0400 Subject: pstore: Fix duplicate {console,ftrace}-efi entries From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> commit d4bf205da618bbd0b038e404d646f14e76915718 upstream. The pstore filesystem still creates duplicate filename/inode pairs for some pstore types. Add the id to the filename to prevent that. Before patch: [/sys/fs/pstore] ls -li total 0 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi After: [/sys/fs/pstore] ls -li total 0 1232 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi-141202499100000 1231 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi-141202499200000 1230 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 17:44 console-efi-141202705400000 1229 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:44 console-efi-141202705500000 1228 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 20:42 console-efi-141203772600000 1227 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 23:42 console-efi-141204854900000 1226 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 23:42 console-efi-141204855000000 1225 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 23:59 console-efi-141204954200000 1224 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 23:59 console-efi-141204954400000 Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/pstore/inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/pstore/inode.c +++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c @@ -316,10 +316,10 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id ty sprintf(name, "dmesg-%s-%lld", psname, id); break; case PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE: - sprintf(name, "console-%s", psname); + sprintf(name, "console-%s-%lld", psname, id); break; case PSTORE_TYPE_FTRACE: - sprintf(name, "ftrace-%s", psname); + sprintf(name, "ftrace-%s-%lld", psname, id); break; case PSTORE_TYPE_MCE: sprintf(name, "mce-%s-%lld", psname, id); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx are queue-3.10/pstore-fix-duplicate-console-ftrace-efi-entries.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html