linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 08/18] pstore/zone: Introduce common layer to manage storage zones

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Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 16:02:21 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     WeiXiong Liao <liaoweixiong@...winnertech.com>
Cc:     Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 08/18] pstore/zone: Introduce common layer to manage
 storage zones

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 04:36:21PM +0800, WeiXiong Liao wrote:
> On 2020/5/11 AM 4:24, Kees Cook wrote:
> > [...]
> > + * @time: oops/panic trigger time
> 
> The above comment should be corrected since it is not only oops/panic
> any more.

Ah yes, thanks! I'll clean these all up.

> > [...]
> > +	if (hdr->reason == KMSG_DUMP_OOPS)
> > +		hdr->counter = ++cxt->oops_counter;
> > +	else
> > +		hdr->counter = ++cxt->panic_counter;
> 
> Here should be:
> 
> 	if (hdr->reason == KMSG_DUMP_OOPS)
> 		hdr->counter = ++cxt->oops_counter;
> 	else if (hdr->reason == KMSG_DUMP_PANIC)
> 		hdr->counter = ++cxt->panic_counter;
> 	else
> 		hdr->counter = 0;

Good catch; thanks! I'll move the lost later hunk to here.

> > [...]
> > +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Storage Manager for pstore/blk");

I'm going to leave this as-is for now since it's accurate for the
moment. :)

-- 
Kees Cook