pstore/ram: Do not treat empty buffers as valid

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1837477
[ Upstream commit 30696378f68a9e3dad6bfe55938b112e72af00c2 ]

The ramoops backend currently calls persistent_ram_save_old() even
if a buffer is empty. While this appears to work, it is does not seem
like the right thing to do and could lead to future bugs so lets avoid
that. It also prevents misleading prints in the logs which claim the
buffer is valid.

I got something like:

	found existing buffer, size 0, start 0

When I was expecting:

	no valid data in buffer (sig = ...)

This bails out early (and reports with pr_debug()), since it's an
acceptable state.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
index ecdb3baa12833ca0b71f85e7b6080e8e8ed59b0c..11e558efd61e064e8ddfd46beb1bbd097e3f02a5 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
@@ -488,6 +488,11 @@ static int persistent_ram_post_init(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, u32 sig,
        sig ^= PERSISTENT_RAM_SIG;
 
        if (prz->buffer->sig == sig) {
+               if (buffer_size(prz) == 0) {
+                       pr_debug("found existing empty buffer\n");
+                       return 0;
+               }
+
                if (buffer_size(prz) > prz->buffer_size ||
                    buffer_start(prz) > buffer_size(prz))
                        pr_info("found existing invalid buffer, size %zu, start %zu\n",