Re: (subset) [PATCH V2 1/3] pstore: Alert on backend write error

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Oct 14 2022 - 13:42:07 EST


On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:06:46 -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> The pstore dump function doesn't alert at all on errors - despite
> pstore is usually a last resource and if it fails users won't be
> able to read the kernel log, this is not the case for server users
> with serial access, for example.
>
> So, let's at least attempt to inform such advanced users on the first
> backend writing error detected during the kmsg dump - this is also
> very useful for pstore debugging purposes.
>
> [...]

Applied to for-next/pstore, thanks!

[1/3] pstore: Alert on backend write error
https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/f181c1af1385

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Kees Cook