Hi Mikhail,
> -----Original Message-----
> When building a dump bitmap (2nd bitmap) for the ELF dump, the last pfn
> of the cycle is always ignored in exclude_nodata_pages() function due to
> off-by-one error on cycle boundary check. Thus, the respective bit of
> the bitmap is never cleared.
> That can lead to the error when such a pfn should not be dumpable (e.g.
> the last pfn of the ELF-load of zero filesize). Based on the bit in the
> bitmap the page is treated as dumpable in write_elf_pages_cyclic() function
> and the follow on error is triggered in write_elf_load_segment() function
> due to the failing sanity check of paddr_to_offset2():
Good catch. I could reproduce this issue with a vmcore on hand and
confirm that the patch fixed it. Looks good to me, applied.
Thanks,
Kazu
>
> $ makedumpfile -E dump.elf dump.elf.E
> Checking for memory holes : [100.0 %] |
> write_elf_load_segment: Can't convert physaddr(7ffff000) to an offset.
> makedumpfile Failed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslo...@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> makedumpfile.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c
> index de0973f..4a00011 100644
> --- a/makedumpfile.c
> +++ b/makedumpfile.c
> @@ -4740,7 +4740,7 @@ exclude_nodata_pages(struct cycle *cycle)
> if (pfn < cycle->start_pfn)
> pfn = cycle->start_pfn;
> if (pfn_end >= cycle->end_pfn)
> - pfn_end = cycle->end_pfn - 1;
> + pfn_end = cycle->end_pfn;
> while (pfn < pfn_end) {
> clear_bit_on_2nd_bitmap(pfn, cycle);
> ++pfn;
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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