linux-kernel - [Bugfix][Patch 3/3] Invoke vpanic inside xpanic function

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Message-ID: <20110526171422.GC17988@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 May 2011 22:44:22 +0530
From:	"K.Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, anderson@...hat.com
Subject: [Bugfix][Patch 3/3] Invoke vpanic inside xpanic function


Invoke vpanic inside xpanic function

xpanic must invoke the worker routine vpanic to perform the erstwhile panic
related function. Instead it erroneously invokes xpanic (recursively) which
needs to be fixed.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/panic.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.slim_kdump/kernel/panic.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.slim_kdump.orig/kernel/panic.c
+++ linux-2.6.slim_kdump/kernel/panic.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ NORET_TYPE void xpanic(enum panic_flags
 {
 	va_list ap;
 	va_start(ap, fmt);
-	xpanic(flags, timeout, fmt, ap);
+	vpanic(flags, timeout, fmt, ap);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(xpanic);
 
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