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powerpc/fadump: Unregister fadump on kexec down path.
authorMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 06:23:18 +0000 (11:53 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 3 Jul 2018 09:18:45 +0000 (11:18 +0200)
commitb2bbfbc827835c64a68fdb32f8644375be6a125a
tree259f14f12b92e70c4034e35859b65ba3d1947cab
parentbab0b551f6c07bfab910999a9cb702fb66380169
powerpc/fadump: Unregister fadump on kexec down path.

commit 722cde76d68e8cc4f3de42e71c82fd40dea4f7b9 upstream.

Unregister fadump on kexec down path otherwise the fadump registration
in new kexec-ed kernel complains that fadump is already registered.
This makes new kernel to continue using fadump registered by previous
kernel which may lead to invalid vmcore generation. Hence this patch
fixes this issue by un-registering fadump in fadump_cleanup() which is
called during kexec path so that new kernel can register fadump with
new valid values.

Fixes: b500afff11f6 ("fadump: Invalidate registration and release reserved memory for general use.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.4+
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c