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author | Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> | 2012-11-14 20:26:21 +0000 |
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committer | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2012-11-26 16:01:56 -0800 |
commit | dd230fecab5e5833b11941f7f4a5732be78b1975 (patch) | |
tree | 6c835ccdfadc71936a7a503edf13eee277cd3cbf /drivers/firmware | |
parent | d80a361d779a9f19498943d1ca84243209cd5647 (diff) | |
download | lwn-dd230fecab5e5833b11941f7f4a5732be78b1975.tar.gz lwn-dd230fecab5e5833b11941f7f4a5732be78b1975.zip |
efi_pstore: Add a logic erasing entries to an erase callback
[Issue]
Currently, efi_pstore driver simply overwrites existing panic messages in NVRAM.
So, in the following scenario, we will lose 1st panic messages.
1. kernel panics.
2. efi_pstore is kicked and writes panic messages to NVRAM.
3. system reboots.
4. kernel panics again before a user checks the 1st panic messages in NVRAM.
[Solution]
A reasonable solution to fix the issue is just holding multiple logs without erasing
existing entries.
This patch freshly adds a logic erasing existing entries, which shared with a write callback,
to an erase callback.
To support holding multiple logs, the write callback doesn't need to erase any entries and
it will be removed in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 46 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c index 37ac21a08751..bee14cc47c03 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c @@ -784,7 +784,51 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(enum pstore_type_id type, static int efi_pstore_erase(enum pstore_type_id type, u64 id, struct pstore_info *psi) { - efi_pstore_write(type, 0, &id, (unsigned int)id, 0, psi); + char stub_name[DUMP_NAME_LEN]; + efi_char16_t efi_name[DUMP_NAME_LEN]; + efi_guid_t vendor = LINUX_EFI_CRASH_GUID; + struct efivars *efivars = psi->data; + struct efivar_entry *entry, *found = NULL; + int i; + + sprintf(stub_name, "dump-type%u-%u-", type, (unsigned int)id); + + spin_lock(&efivars->lock); + + for (i = 0; i < DUMP_NAME_LEN; i++) + efi_name[i] = stub_name[i]; + + /* + * Clean up any entries with the same name + */ + + list_for_each_entry(entry, &efivars->list, list) { + get_var_data_locked(efivars, &entry->var); + + if (efi_guidcmp(entry->var.VendorGuid, vendor)) + continue; + if (utf16_strncmp(entry->var.VariableName, efi_name, + utf16_strlen(efi_name))) + continue; + /* Needs to be a prefix */ + if (entry->var.VariableName[utf16_strlen(efi_name)] == 0) + continue; + + /* found */ + found = entry; + efivars->ops->set_variable(entry->var.VariableName, + &entry->var.VendorGuid, + PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES, + 0, NULL); + } + + if (found) + list_del(&found->list); + + spin_unlock(&efivars->lock); + + if (found) + efivar_unregister(found); return 0; } |