The crash_exclude_mem_range() can only handle one memory region one time. It will fail the case in which the passed in area covers several memory regions. In the case, it will only exclude the first region, then return, but leave the later regions unsolved.
E.g in a NEC system with two usable RAM regions inside the low 1M: ... BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000003efff] usable BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000003f000-0x000000000003ffff] reserved BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000040000-0x000000000009ffff] usable It will only exclude the memory region [0, 0x3efff], the memory region [0x40000, 0x9ffff] will still be added into /proc/vmcore, which may cause the following failure when dumping the vmcore: ioremap on RAM at 0x0000000000040000 - 0x0000000000040fff WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 665 at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:186 __ioremap_caller+0x2c7/0x2e0 ... RIP: 0010:__ioremap_caller+0x2c7/0x2e0 Code: 05 20 47 1c 01 48 09 c5 e9 93 fe ff ff 48 8d 54 24 28 48 8d 74 24 18 48 c7 c7 85 e7 09 82 c6 05 b4 10 36 01 01 e8 32 91 04 00 <0f> 0b 45 31 ff e9 f3 fe ff ff e8 2a 8e 04 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000071fd60 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000040000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff8880620268c0 RSI: ffff888062016a08 RDI: ffff888062016a08 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000441 R09: 0000000000000048 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffc9000071fc08 R12: 00007f794c343000 R13: 0000000000001000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f794c352800(0000) GS:ffff888062000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f794c350000 CR3: 000000005df9c005 CR4: 00000000001606b0 Call Trace: ? __copy_oldmem_page.part.0+0x9c/0xb0 __copy_oldmem_page.part.0+0x9c/0xb0 read_from_oldmem.part.2+0xe2/0x140 read_vmcore+0xd8/0x2f0 proc_reg_read+0x39/0x60 vfs_read+0x91/0x140 ksys_read+0x4f/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca cp: error reading '/proc/vmcore': Cannot allocate memory kdump: saving vmcore failed In order to solve this issue, let's extend the crash_exclude_mem_range() to handle the overlapping ranges. Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <liji...@redhat.com> --- kernel/kexec_file.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c index 09cc78df53c6..41616b6a80ad 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c @@ -1157,24 +1157,26 @@ int crash_exclude_mem_range(struct crash_mem *mem, unsigned long long mstart, unsigned long long mend) { int i, j; - unsigned long long start, end; + unsigned long long start, end, p_start, p_end; struct crash_mem_range temp_range = {0, 0}; for (i = 0; i < mem->nr_ranges; i++) { start = mem->ranges[i].start; end = mem->ranges[i].end; + p_start = mstart; + p_end = mend; if (mstart > end || mend < start) continue; /* Truncate any area outside of range */ if (mstart < start) - mstart = start; + p_start = start; if (mend > end) - mend = end; + p_end = end; /* Found completely overlapping range */ - if (mstart == start && mend == end) { + if (p_start == start && p_end == end) { mem->ranges[i].start = 0; mem->ranges[i].end = 0; if (i < mem->nr_ranges - 1) { @@ -1185,20 +1187,29 @@ int crash_exclude_mem_range(struct crash_mem *mem, mem->ranges[j].end = mem->ranges[j+1].end; } + + /* + * Continue to check if there are another overlapping ranges + * from the current position because of shifting the above + * mem ranges. + */ + i--; + mem->nr_ranges--; + continue; } mem->nr_ranges--; return 0; } - if (mstart > start && mend < end) { + if (p_start > start && p_end < end) { /* Split original range */ - mem->ranges[i].end = mstart - 1; - temp_range.start = mend + 1; + mem->ranges[i].end = p_start - 1; + temp_range.start = p_end + 1; temp_range.end = end; - } else if (mstart != start) - mem->ranges[i].end = mstart - 1; + } else if (p_start != start) + mem->ranges[i].end = p_start - 1; else - mem->ranges[i].start = mend + 1; + mem->ranges[i].start = p_end + 1; break; } -- 2.17.1