Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:05:26 -0500 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vmcore: prevent PT_NOTE p_memsz overflow during header update |
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 04:57:56PM +0000, Pearson, Greg wrote:
[..] > > So I will not be too worried about skipping seemingly corrupted ELf > > notes. I think giving a warning makes sense though. Is somebody > > overwriting the memory area in kenrel reserved for per cpu PT_NOTE. > > I haven't figured out the cause of the strange second PT_NOTE entries > yet, but I suspect some type of memory corruption.
Hi Greg,
May be put some printk() in crash_save_cpu() and make sure that at creation time notes are being created properly. That will atleast make clear whether elf notes were not created properly or they got corrupted later.
Thanks Vivek
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