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SubjectRe: [PATCH] panic: call panic handlers before kmsg_dump
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> Since the panic handlers may produce additional information (via printk)
>>> for the kernel log, it should be reported as part of the panic output
>>> saved by kmsg_dump(). Without this re-ordering, nothing that adds
>>> information to a panic will show up in pstore's view when kmsg_dump
>>> runs, and is therefore not visible to crash reporting tools that examine
>>> pstore output.
>>
>> Good point.
>>
>> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
>
> Can someone pick this patch up? If akpm doesn't want it, it could live
> in the pstore tree maybe?

Ah, sorry, it seems like it is already in -mm. Never mind!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security


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