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SubjectRe: [PATCH] panic: call panic handlers before kmsg_dump
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> Since the panic handlers may produce additional information (via printk)
>> for the kernel log, it should be reported as part of the panic output
>> saved by kmsg_dump(). Without this re-ordering, nothing that adds
>> information to a panic will show up in pstore's view when kmsg_dump
>> runs, and is therefore not visible to crash reporting tools that examine
>> pstore output.
>
> Good point.
>
> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Can someone pick this patch up? If akpm doesn't want it, it could live
in the pstore tree maybe?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security


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