s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE"
authorMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 7 Feb 2017 17:09:14 +0000 (18:09 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 02:02:41 +0000 (10:02 +0800)
commit91cfcaa6ed46e41c8b44ee09754988b64e075ef2
treed063dabc81446d07400ca1bf88c9c38119c72b29
parentb848102542f5cab63606ad4a45da2e5edc14c571
s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE"

commit a4a81d8eebdc1d209d034f62a082a5131e4242b5 upstream.

In binutils/libbfd (bfd/elf.c) it is enforced that all s390 specific ELF
notes like e.g. NT_S390_PREFIX or NT_S390_CTRS have "LINUX" specified
as note name. Otherwise the notes are ignored.

For /proc/vmcore we currently use "CORE" for these notes.

Up to now this has not been a real problem because the dump analysis tool
"crash" does not check the note name. But it will break all programs that
use libbfd for processing ELF notes.

So fix this and use "LINUX" for all s390 specific notes to comply with
libbfd.

Reported-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c