From bd58782995a2e6a07fd07255f3cc319f40b131c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Breno Leitao Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:39:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] vmcoreinfo: make hwerr_data visible for debugging If the kernel is compiled with LTO, hwerr_data symbol might be lost, and vmcoreinfo doesn't have it dumped. This is currently seen in some production kernels with LTO enabled. Remove the static qualifier from hwerr_data so that the information is still preserved when the kernel is built with LTO. Making hwerr_data a global symbol ensures its debug info survives the LTO link process and appears in kallsyms. Also document it, so it doesn't get removed in the future as suggested by akpm. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260122-fix_vmcoreinfo-v2-1-2d6311f9e36c@debian.org Fixes: 3fa805c37dd4 ("vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Dave Young Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Omar Sandoval Cc: Shuai Xue Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Zhiquan Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/vmcore_info.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/vmcore_info.c b/kernel/vmcore_info.c index fe9bf8db1922e..e2784038bbed7 100644 --- a/kernel/vmcore_info.c +++ b/kernel/vmcore_info.c @@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ struct hwerr_info { time64_t timestamp; }; -static struct hwerr_info hwerr_data[HWERR_RECOV_MAX]; +/* + * The hwerr_data[] array is declared with global scope so that it remains + * accessible to vmcoreinfo even when Link Time Optimization (LTO) is enabled. + */ +struct hwerr_info hwerr_data[HWERR_RECOV_MAX]; Elf_Word *append_elf_note(Elf_Word *buf, char *name, unsigned int type, void *data, size_t data_len) -- 2.47.3