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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] kexec: Export vmcoreinfo note size properly
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:50:46PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Right now we seem to be exporting the max data size contained inside
> vmcoreinfo note. But this does not include the size of meta data around
> vmcore info data. Like name of the note and starting and ending elf_note.
>
> I think user space expects total size and that size is put in PT_NOTE
> elf header.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> ---
> kernel/ksysfs.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

This should go into 3.13, right?

Nice fix.

greg k-h


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