pstore: defer inserting OOPS entries into pstore

Life is simple for all the kernel terminating types of kmsg_dump
call backs - pstore just saves the tail end of the console log. But
for "oops" the situation is more complex - the kernel may carry on
running (possibly for ever).  So we'd like to make the logged copy
of the oops appear in the pstore filesystem - so that the user has
a handle to clear the entry from the persistent backing store (if
we don't, the store may fill with "oops" entries (that are also
safely stashed in /var/log/messages) leaving no space for real
errors.

Current code calls pstore_mkfile() immediately. But this may
not be safe. The oops could have happened with arbitrary locks
held, or in interrupt or NMI context. So allocating memory and
calling into generic filesystem code seems unwise.

This patch defers making the entry appear. At the time
of the oops, we merely set a flag "pstore_new_entry" noting that
a new entry has been added. A periodic timer checks once a minute
to see if the flag is set - if so, it schedules a work queue to
rescan the backing store and make all new entries appear in the
pstore filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index 893b961dcfd..379a02dc121 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
 #include <linux/time.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/ramfs.h>
@@ -32,13 +33,18 @@
 #include <linux/magic.h>
 #include <linux/pstore.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
 #define	PSTORE_NAMELEN	64
 
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(allpstore_lock);
+static LIST_HEAD(allpstore);
+
 struct pstore_private {
+	struct list_head list;
 	struct pstore_info *psi;
 	enum pstore_type_id type;
 	u64	id;
@@ -81,8 +87,16 @@ static int pstore_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 
 static void pstore_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
+	struct pstore_private	*p = inode->i_private;
+	unsigned long		flags;
+
 	end_writeback(inode);
-	kfree(inode->i_private);
+	if (p) {
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&allpstore_lock, flags);
+		list_del(&p->list);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&allpstore_lock, flags);
+		kfree(p);
+	}
 }
 
 static const struct inode_operations pstore_dir_inode_operations = {
@@ -182,9 +196,23 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char *psname, u64 id,
 	struct dentry		*root = pstore_sb->s_root;
 	struct dentry		*dentry;
 	struct inode		*inode;
-	int			rc;
+	int			rc = 0;
 	char			name[PSTORE_NAMELEN];
-	struct pstore_private	*private;
+	struct pstore_private	*private, *pos;
+	unsigned long		flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&allpstore_lock, flags);
+	list_for_each_entry(pos, &allpstore, list) {
+		if (pos->type == type &&
+		    pos->id == id &&
+		    pos->psi == psi) {
+			rc = -EEXIST;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&allpstore_lock, flags);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
 
 	rc = -ENOMEM;
 	inode = pstore_get_inode(pstore_sb, root->d_inode, S_IFREG | 0444, 0);
@@ -229,6 +257,10 @@ int pstore_mkfile(enum pstore_type_id type, char *psname, u64 id,
 
 	d_add(dentry, inode);
 
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&allpstore_lock, flags);
+	list_add(&private->list, &allpstore);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&allpstore_lock, flags);
+
 	mutex_unlock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -277,7 +309,7 @@ int pstore_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 		goto fail;
 	}
 
-	pstore_get_records();
+	pstore_get_records(0);
 
 	return 0;
 fail: