linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mark pstore-blk as broken

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Date:   Tue, 8 Jun 2021 10:34:29 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, anton@...msg.org, ccross@...roid.com,
        tony.luck@...el.com, gmpy.liaowx@...il.com,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark pstore-blk as broken

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 06:13:27PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> pstore-blk just pokes directly into the pagecache for the block
> device without going through the file operations for that by faking
> up it's own file operations that do not match the block device ones.
> 
> As this breaks the control of the block layer of it's page cache,
> and even now just works by accident only the best thing is to just
> disable this driver.
> 
> Fixes: 17639f67c1d6 ("pstore/blk: Introduce backend for block devices")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> ---
>  fs/pstore/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/Kconfig b/fs/pstore/Kconfig
> index 8adabde685f1..328da35da390 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/pstore/Kconfig
> @@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ config PSTORE_BLK
>  	tristate "Log panic/oops to a block device"
>  	depends on PSTORE
>  	depends on BLOCK
> +	depends on BROKEN
>  	select PSTORE_ZONE
>  	default n
>  	help
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 

NAK, please answer my concerns about your patches instead:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202012011149.5650B9796@keescook/

-- 
Kees Cook