pstore bug fixes

- always reset circular buffer state when writing new dump (Aleksandr Yashkin)
 - fix rare error-path memory leak (Kees Cook)
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Merge tag 'pstore-v5.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull pstore bug fixes from Kees Cook:

 - always reset circular buffer state when writing new dump (Aleksandr
   Yashkin)

 - fix rare error-path memory leak (Kees Cook)

* tag 'pstore-v5.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  pstore/ram: Write new dumps to start of recycled zones
  pstore/ram: Fix error-path memory leak in persistent_ram_new() callers
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Linus Torvalds 2020-01-02 16:39:51 -08:00
commit 278b14eb92
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@ -407,6 +407,17 @@ static int notrace ramoops_pstore_write(struct pstore_record *record)
prz = cxt->dprzs[cxt->dump_write_cnt];
/*
* Since this is a new crash dump, we need to reset the buffer in
* case it still has an old dump present. Without this, the new dump
* will get appended, which would seriously confuse anything trying
* to check dump file contents. Specifically, ramoops_read_kmsg_hdr()
* expects to find a dump header in the beginning of buffer data, so
* we must to reset the buffer values, in order to ensure that the
* header will be written to the beginning of the buffer.
*/
persistent_ram_zap(prz);
/* Build header and append record contents. */
hlen = ramoops_write_kmsg_hdr(prz, record);
if (!hlen)
@ -577,6 +588,7 @@ static int ramoops_init_przs(const char *name,
dev_err(dev, "failed to request %s mem region (0x%zx@0x%llx): %d\n",
name, record_size,
(unsigned long long)*paddr, err);
kfree(label);
while (i > 0) {
i--;
@ -622,6 +634,7 @@ static int ramoops_init_prz(const char *name,
dev_err(dev, "failed to request %s mem region (0x%zx@0x%llx): %d\n",
name, sz, (unsigned long long)*paddr, err);
kfree(label);
return err;
}