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Commit 8cce437f authored by Philipp Rudo's avatar Philipp Rudo Committed by Martin Schwidefsky
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s390/kdump: Fix elfcorehdr size calculation



Before the memory for the elfcorehdr is allocated the required size is
estimated with

       alloc_size = 0x1000 + get_cpu_cnt() * 0x4a0 +
               mem_chunk_cnt * sizeof(Elf64_Phdr);

Where 0x4a0 is used as size for the ELF notes to store the register
contend. This size is 8 bytes too small. Usually this does not immediately
cause a problem because the page reserved for overhead (Elf_Ehdr,
vmcoreinfo, etc.) is pretty generous. So usually there is enough spare
memory to counter the mis-calculated per cpu size. However, with growing
overhead and/or a huge cpu count the allocated size gets too small for the
elfcorehdr. Ultimately a BUG_ON is triggered causing the crash kernel to
panic.

Fix this by properly calculating the required size instead of relying on
magic numbers.

Fixes: a62bc073 ("s390/kdump: add support for vector extension")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPhilipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
parent 5223c671
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