seiji.agu...@hds.com writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Madper Xie [mailto:c...@redhat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 5:45 AM
>> To: tony.l...@intel.com; keesc...@chromium.org; ccr...@android.com; 
>> an...@enomsg.org; Seiji Aguchi
>> Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; 
>> bbbo...@gmail.com; Madper Xie
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] pstore: avoid incorrectly mark entry as duplicate
>> 
>> From: Madper Xie <bbbo...@gmail.com>
>> 
>> pstore try to find duplicate entries by check both ID, type and psi.
>> They are not really enough for efi backend. dumped vars always have
>> the same type, psi and ID. like follows:
>> dump-type0-9-1-1382511508-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
>> dump-type0-9-1-1382515661-C-cfc8fc79-be2e-4ddc-97f0-9f98bfe298a0
>> 
>> The "duplicate" entries won't appear in pstorefs. And a complain will be
>> print -- pstore: failed to load 76 record(s) from 'efi'
>> So I add two more checks: timespec and count.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Madper Xie <c...@redhat.com>
>
> Looks good to me.
> Acked-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.agu...@hds.com>
>
> But, this patch has to be tested by other backend drivers like erst and 
> ramoops.
> In my understanding, erst has supported to log multiple events.
> So, I'm interested why the same error hasn't happened in the other drivers.
>
> Seiji
Thanks for your review. I'll try to test other backends. :-)
>
>> ---
>>  fs/pstore/inode.c | 6 +++++-
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
>> index 1282384..0ae994c 100644
>> --- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
>> +++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
>> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(allpstore);
>>  struct pstore_private {
>>      struct list_head list;
>>      struct pstore_info *psi;
>> +    struct timespec time;
>>      enum pstore_type_id type;
>>      u64     id;
>>      int     count;
>> @@ -290,7 +291,9 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char 
>> *psname, u64 id, int count,
>>      list_for_each_entry(pos, &allpstore, list) {
>>              if (pos->type == type &&
>>                  pos->id == id &&
>> -                pos->psi == psi) {
>> +                pos->psi == psi &&
>> +                pos->count == count &&
>> +                !timespec_compare(&pos->time, &time)) {
>>                      rc = -EEXIST;
>>                      break;
>>              }
>> @@ -312,6 +315,7 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char 
>> *psname, u64 id, int count,
>>      private->id = id;
>>      private->count = count;
>>      private->psi = psi;
>> +    memcpy(&private->time, &time, sizeof(struct timespec));
>> 
>>      switch (type) {
>>      case PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG:
>> --
>> 1.8.4.2


-- 
Best,
Madper Xie.
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