7.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vasily Gorbik [ Upstream commit 7f918871112e8e7c581e99eb8e545af4e59c8367 ] Some IPL types, like HMC FTP boot or QEMU direct kernel boot, might not provide an IPL parameter block. In this case, reipl_type_init() selects IPL_TYPE_UNKNOWN, and reipl_block_actual remains NULL. kdump passes the re-IPL parameter block to the dump kernel through os_info. Before commit 3b9678472bab ("s390/ipl: correct kdump reipl block checksum calculation"), the os_info entry was added only for IPL types which initialized reipl_block_actual. That commit moved the os_info update to machine_crash_shutdown(), making it unconditional. As a result, set_os_info_reipl_block() dereferences reipl_block_actual for IPL_TYPE_UNKNOWN. This may happen to work by chance when address zero contains readable lowcore data and the resulting empty os_info entry is ignored by the dump kernel. Skip the os_info update when no re-IPL parameter block is available. Kdump then collect the dump and reboot without setting re-IPL parameter block. Fixes: 3b9678472bab ("s390/ipl: correct kdump reipl block checksum calculation") Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c b/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c index 3c346b02ceb95..7024fc4137152 100644 --- a/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c @@ -1157,6 +1157,8 @@ static struct attribute_group reipl_nss_attr_group = { void set_os_info_reipl_block(void) { + if (!reipl_block_actual) + return; os_info_entry_add_data(OS_INFO_REIPL_BLOCK, reipl_block_actual, reipl_block_actual->hdr.len); } -- 2.53.0