Resolves: bz2069200
Upstream: github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile.git
Conflicts: goto out_error --> return FALSE
due to missing 64b5b29 ("[PATCH 03/15] remove variable length
array in readpage_kdump_compressed()")
commit 5035c0821f07da3badda645cd0064d4b80e1667d
Author: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Date: Mon Mar 14 17:04:32 2022 +0100
[PATCH] print error when reading with unsupported compression
Currently makedumpfile only checks if the required compression algorithm
was enabled during build when compressing a dump but not when reading
from one. This can lead to situations where, one version of makedumpfile
creates the dump using a compression algorithm an other version of
makedumpfile doesn't support. When the second version now tries to, e.g.
extract the dmesg from the dump it will fail with an error similar to
# makedumpfile --dump-dmesg vmcore dmesg.txt
__vtop4_x86_64: Can't get a valid pgd.
readmem: Can't convert a virtual address(ffffffff92e18284) to physical address.
readmem: type_addr: 0, addr:ffffffff92e18284, size:390
check_release: Can't get the address of system_utsname.
makedumpfile Failed.
That's because readpage_kdump_compressed{_parallel} does not return
with an error if the page it is trying to read is compressed with an
unsupported compression algorithm. Thus readmem copies random data from
the (uninitialized) cachebuf to its caller and thus causing the error
above.
Fix this by checking if the required compression algorithm is supported
in readpage_kdump_compressed{_parallel} and print a proper error message
if it isn't.
Reported-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab@nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
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