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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pstore/ram.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/pstore/ram.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c index 8b09271e5d66..a73959e6ae32 100644 --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c @@ -321,6 +321,17 @@ static int notrace ramoops_pstore_write_buf(enum pstore_type_id type, prz = cxt->przs[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); + hlen = ramoops_write_kmsg_hdr(prz, compressed); if (size + hlen > prz->buffer_size) size = prz->buffer_size - hlen; |