From 065d73a90acb3bb69d2f4600c4541e464bd6bc9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lichen Liu <lichliu@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:55:08 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] kdump-lib-initramfs: Fix performance regression in
 kdump_get_conf_val

Resolves: RHEL-115464
Upstream: kdump-utils
Conflict: None

commit b43908c20f5a028c60b0096006a26a6e52a01279
Author: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 15:54:25 2026 +0100

    kdump-lib-initramfs: Fix performance regression in kdump_get_conf_val

    Rewriting kdump_get_conf_val in Bash lead to a massive performance
    regression. On my test system starting the kdump service took

    $ time kdumpctl start
    real    0m13.134s
    user    0m8.828s
    sys     0m7.450s

    which is ~20 times slower compared to kdump-utils-1.0.59-1.fc44 with

    $ time kdumpctl start
    real    0m0.641s
    user    0m0.208s
    sys     0m0.538s

    Looking at the traces shows that this is caused because Bash now has to
    handle the whole kdump.conf, including the extensive comment at the
    start, every time kdump_get_conf_val is called. This is done multiple
    times when starting the kdump service and is often cloaked by other
    functions, e.g. is_ssh_dump_target() or get_save_path().

    To fix the issue remove comments and empty lines in a regex again so
    that the Bash code only has to handle valid config entries. With this
    change alone the performance is almost as good as the original version
    with

    $ time kdumpctl start
    real    0m0.780s
    user    0m0.330s
    sys     0m0.604s

    In the long run it would make sense to also reduce the number of calls
    to kdump_get_conf_val.

    This patch also fixes the issue that subsequent blanks are replaced by a
    single space. Usually this is not an issue but there are corner cases,
    e.g. in printf-like format strings passed as an argument, where the new
    behaviour is undesirable.

    Fixes: d81109c ("kdump-lib-initramfs: rewrite kdump_get_conf_val")
    Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Lichen Liu <lichliu@redhat.com>
---
 kdump-lib-initramfs.sh | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh b/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh
index 1fc0aa2..da52524 100755
--- a/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh
+++ b/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh
@@ -27,38 +27,40 @@ kdump_get_conf_val()
 	_found=""
 
 	[ -f "$KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE" ] || return
-	while read -r _line; do
-		_line="$(echo "$_line" | tr -s "[:blank:]" " ")"
-		case "$_line" in
-		"" | \#*)
-			continue
-			;;
-		*\#*)
-			_line="${_line%%\#*}"
-			_line="${_line% }"
-			;;
-		esac
 
-		_opt=${_line%% *}
-		_val=${_line#* }
+	# On lines that are _not_ comments or empty remove...
+	# Note: The additional braces {} are required as piping into a while
+	# loop creates a sub-shell. So without the braces $_found would only be
+	# set inside the loop but empty outside of it.
+	grep -Ev -e '^\s*#' -e '^\s*$' "$KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE" | {
+		while read -r _opt _val; do
+			# ...trailing comments...
+			case "$_val" in
+			*\#*)
+				_val="${_val%%#*}"
+				_val="${_val%"${_val##*[![:space:]]}"}"
+				;;
+			esac
 
-		case "$_val" in
-		\"*\")
-			# Remove quotes
-			_val="${_val#\"}"
-			_val="${_val%\"}"
-			;;
-		esac
+			# ...quotes
+			case "$_val" in
+			\"*\")
+				_val="${_val#\"}"
+				_val="${_val%\"}"
+				;;
+			esac
 
-		if [ -z "$_to_find" ]; then
-			echo "$_opt $_val"
-		elif echo "$_opt" | grep -q -E "^($_to_find)$"; then
-			# make sure to only return the last match to mirror the
-			# old behavior
-			_found="$_val"
-		fi
-	done < "$KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE"
-	[ -n "$_found" ] && echo "$_found"
+			if [ -z "$_to_find" ]; then
+				echo "$_opt $_val"
+			elif echo "$_opt" | grep -q -E "^($_to_find)$"; then
+				# make sure to only return the last match to
+				# mirror the old behavior
+				_found="$_val"
+			fi
+		done
+
+		[ -n "$_found" ] && echo "$_found"
+	}
 
 	# make sure we return 0 even when a option isn't set
 	return 0