[PATCH] vmcore-dmesg: Determine file data size based on e_machine

[Vivek Goyal]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 06:07:43PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > A 32bit arch can prepare ELF64 headers. For example for PAE case to
> > preresent file offsets 64bit but data size at the offset still remains
> > 32bit. If we just base our decision based on EI_CLASS, then we will try
> > to read 64bit data from file and can run into various issues.
> >
> > We ran into following issue when we tried to run vmcore-dmesg on a 32bit
> > PAE system vmcore which had 64bit elf headers.
> >
> > No program header covering vaddr 0xc0a6a688c0b89100found kexec bug?
> >
> > Basically we try to read value of log_buf variable from address
> > log_buf_vaddr. We read in 64bit value and then pass that value again
> > to vaddr_to_offset() in an attempt to get to actual log_buf start
> > and get error message.
> >
> > So determine the data size based on arch and read the bytes from
> > file accordingly.
> 
> The basic code change is sound.  However the naming is problematic.
> 
> Let me suggest:
> 
> static unsigned machine_pointer_bits(void)
> {
>         uint8_t bits = 0;
> 
>         /* Default to the size of the elf class */
>         switch(ehdr.e_ident[EI_CLASS]) {
>         case ELFCLASS32:	bits = 32; break;
>         case ELFCLASS64:	bits = 64; break;
>         }
> 
>         /* Report the architectures pointer size */
>         switch(ehdr.e_machine) {
>         case EM_386:		bits = 32; break;
>         }
> 
>         return bits;
> }

Thanks Eric. Version 2 is on the way.

Vivek