linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/8] pstore: Improve and update some comments and status output

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Date:   Thu,  1 Nov 2018 16:51:57 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] pstore: Improve and update some comments and status output

This improves and updates some comments:
 - dump handler comment out of sync from calling convention
 - fix kern-doc typo

and improves status output:
 - reminder that only kernel crash dumps are compressed
 - do not be silent about ECC infrastructure failures

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 fs/pstore/platform.c   | 7 +++----
 fs/pstore/ram_core.c   | 4 +++-
 include/linux/pstore.h | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index 8b6028948cf3..a956c7bc3f67 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static void allocate_buf_for_compression(void)
 	big_oops_buf_sz = size;
 	big_oops_buf = buf;
 
-	pr_info("Using compression: %s\n", zbackend->name);
+	pr_info("Using crash dump compression: %s\n", zbackend->name);
 }
 
 static void free_buf_for_compression(void)
@@ -354,9 +354,8 @@ void pstore_record_init(struct pstore_record *record,
 }
 
 /*
- * callback from kmsg_dump. (s2,l2) has the most recently
- * written bytes, older bytes are in (s1,l1). Save as much
- * as we can from the end of the buffer.
+ * callback from kmsg_dump. Save as much as we can (up to kmsg_bytes) from the
+ * end of the buffer.
  */
 static void pstore_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 			enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
index 1cda5922b4b4..e859e02f67a8 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
@@ -503,8 +503,10 @@ static int persistent_ram_post_init(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, u32 sig,
 	bool zap = !!(prz->flags & PRZ_FLAG_ZAP_OLD);
 
 	ret = persistent_ram_init_ecc(prz, ecc_info);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		pr_warn("ECC failed %s\n", prz->label);
 		return ret;
+	}
 
 	sig ^= PERSISTENT_RAM_SIG;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
index a15bc4d48752..877ed81de346 100644
--- a/include/linux/pstore.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ struct pstore_record {
 /**
  * struct pstore_info - backend pstore driver structure
  *
- * @owner:	module which is repsonsible for this backend driver
+ * @owner:	module which is responsible for this backend driver
  * @name:	name of the backend driver
  *
  * @buf_lock:	spinlock to serialize access to @buf
-- 
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