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s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE"
authorMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 7 Feb 2017 17:09:14 +0000 (18:09 +0100)
committerThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Thu, 6 Apr 2017 08:23:18 +0000 (09:23 +0100)
commit9f03c2d45c5dea668b5f8ad77abd2578c7b424a0
treec893535b4a673d8873f41770ed030f2bb2cb1427
parentad3c86be7b1a2fdeedb145ae1aad9cbac48e294a
s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE"

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1674292
commit a4a81d8eebdc1d209d034f62a082a5131e4242b5 upstream.

In binutils/libbfd (bfd/elf.c) it is enforced that all s390 specific ELF
notes like e.g. NT_S390_PREFIX or NT_S390_CTRS have "LINUX" specified
as note name. Otherwise the notes are ignored.

For /proc/vmcore we currently use "CORE" for these notes.

Up to now this has not been a real problem because the dump analysis tool
"crash" does not check the note name. But it will break all programs that
use libbfd for processing ELF notes.

So fix this and use "LINUX" for all s390 specific notes to comply with
libbfd.

Reported-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c