[PATCH v2 10/14] Generate and save VMCOREINFO and ELF note information

[HATAYAMA Daisuke]

From: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi at mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/14] Generate and save VMCOREINFO and ELF note information
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:22:30 +0900

> Hi Hatayama-san,
> 
>> > I have a question.
>> > In what kind of case is only one of the offset or the size set to 0 in PT_NOTE?
>> > 
>> 
>> Thanks for your reviewing.
>> 
>> On sadump processing, offset_pt_note_memory represents file offset to
>> a temporary file created specifically for writing PT_NOTE section. So
>> offset_pt_note_memory is always 0. Its file pointer is set to struct
>> sadump_info::file_elf_note. Please look at the end of
>> sadump_generate_elf_note_from_dumpfile().
>> 
>> On the other hand, on both ELF and kdump-compressed format, PT_NOTE
>> section is always located in the middle of the vmcores. On either
>> formats, there's always another header before the PT_NOTE section: on
>> ELF, ELF header, and on kdump-compressed format, at least. So
>> offset_pt_note_memory is always strictly greater than 0 on these
>> formats.
>> 
>> If condition of has_pt_note() is not weakened in such a way,
>> has_pt_note() amounts to always false and execution in
>> write_kdump_header() always passes through writing oepration for
>> PT_NOTE section.
> 
> 
> Thank you for your explanation. I understand.
> However
> 	if (offset_pt_note_memory || size_pt_note_memory)
> seems to allow the offset != 0 and the size == 0.
> Is the following fixing right?
> I would like to fix has_pt_note() like this.
> How about this?
> 
> -	if (offset_pt_note_memory && size_pt_note_memory)
> +       if (info->flag_sadump) {
> +		if (size_pt_note_memory)
> +			return TRUE;
> +	} else if (offset_pt_note_memory && size_pt_note_memory)
> 			return TRUE;
> 

I agree. It looks better.

Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke