pstore: Alert on backend write error
authorGuilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:06:46 +0000 (18:06 -0300)
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:25:39 +0000 (09:25 -0700)
commit38b91847c314f49c80e30062549d4709a3754ea6
treed754192d910ceaff2bf4517dc7faeff0e8854891
parent7d7eca411fa0c662693613805107494a9dc7477f
pstore: Alert on backend write error

The pstore dump function doesn't alert at all on errors - despite
pstore is usually a last resource and if it fails users won't be
able to read the kernel log, this is not the case for server users
with serial access, for example.

So, let's at least attempt to inform such advanced users on the first
backend writing error detected during the kmsg dump - this is also
very useful for pstore debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221013210648.137452-2-gpiccoli@igalia.com
fs/pstore/platform.c