linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pstore: pass reason to backend write callback

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Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:55:07 -0800
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Chen Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pstore: pass reason to backend write callback

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Chen Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> 于 2011/11/15 7:29, Kees Cook 写道:
>> This allows a backend to filter on the dmesg reason as well as the pstore
>> reason. When ramoops is switched to pstore, this is needed since it has
>> no interest in storing non-crash dmesg details.
> We ever talked about it here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/20/468.
> Matthew's patch is good enough if pstore_write can be cleaned.

Ah, thanks for the URL. Yeah, it looks like it would be sane to just
remove pstore_write completely. I will send an updated patch.

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
ChromeOS Security
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