This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/spufs: Fix coredump of SPU contexts
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: powerpc-spufs-fix-coredump-of-spu-contexts.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 13:58:07 CEST 2018
From: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 20:26:07 +1000 Subject: powerpc/spufs: Fix coredump of SPU contexts
From: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au
[ Upstream commit 99acc9bede06bbb2662aafff51f5b9e529fa845e ]
If a process dumps core while it has SPU contexts active then we have code to also dump information about the SPU contexts.
Unfortunately it's been broken for 3 1/2 years, and we didn't notice. In commit 7b1f4020d0d1 ("spufs: get rid of dump_emit() wrappers") the nread variable was removed and rc used instead. That means when the loop exits successfully, rc has the number of bytes read, but it's then used as the return value for the function, which should return 0 on success.
So fix it by setting rc = 0 before returning in the success case.
Fixes: 7b1f4020d0d1 ("spufs: get rid of dump_emit() wrappers") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr jk@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/coredump.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/coredump.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/coredump.c @@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ static int spufs_arch_write_note(struct if (!dump_skip(cprm, roundup(cprm->written - total + sz, 4) - cprm->written)) goto Eio; + + rc = 0; out: free_page((unsigned long)buf); return rc;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpe@ellerman.id.au are
queue-3.18/selftests-powerpc-fix-tm-resched-dscr-test-with-some-compilers.patch queue-3.18/powerpc-spufs-fix-coredump-of-spu-contexts.patch queue-3.18/signal-powerpc-document-conflicts-with-si_user-and-sigfpe-and-sigtrap.patch queue-3.18/powerpc-don-t-clobber-tcr-when-setting-tcr.patch