Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/15] Don't return -ENOSYS as extra notes size if spufs is not loaded | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:04:57 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Because the SPU coredump code might be built as part of a module (spufs), > we have a stub which is called by the coredump code, this routine then calls > into spufs if it's loaded. > > Unfortunately the stub returns -ENOSYS if spufs is not loaded, which is > interpreted by the coredump code as an extra note size of -38 bytes. This > leads to a corrupt core dump. > > If spufs is not loaded there will be no SPU ELF notes to write, and so the > extra notes size will be == 0. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
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