Accepted crash 7.2.5-1 (source amd64) into unstable
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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 08:55:24 -0700
Source: crash
Binary: crash crash-dbgsym
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 7.2.5-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Troy Heber <troyh@debian.org>
Changed-By: Troy Heber <troyh@debian.org>
Description:
crash - kernel debugging utility, allowing gdb like syntax
Closes: 919291
Changes:
crash (7.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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* New upstream (Closes: #919291)
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* Resurrection of the "dev -p" option for displaying PCI device data on
Linux 2.6.26 and later kernels. The option was deprecated as of Linux
2.6.26, and without the patch, the option would indicate "dev: -p option
not supported or applicable on this architecture or kernel" when running
against the newer kernel versions. PCI Bus information will also be
displayed with this patch.
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* With Linux 4.19-rc1 commit 7d4340bb92a9df78e6e28152f3dd89d9bd82146b,
titled "powerpc/mm: Increase MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS to 128TB with
SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP config", the PPC64 MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS value has been
bumped up to 47. The appropriate update has been made in this patch.
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* Fix to allow piping command output to a shell script beginning with a
shebang (#!) character sequence if the script pathname is specified with a
preceding "./" or "/". Without the patch, the piped command fails with
the message "crash: pipe operation failed".
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* Fix for the PPC64 "bt" command to recognize when a thread is running in
OPAL firmware. Without the patch, the "bt" command indicates
<task-address>: Invalid Stack Pointer <OPAL-firmware-address>"
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* As an addendum to the "dev -p" patch above, add the new structure member
offsets for display by the "help -o" option.
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* Enhancement to the "kmem -n" option to dump memory block information if
the kernel supports it. In addition, the memory section data block has a
new "STATE" column added to it.
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* Addendum to the previous "kmem -n" patch to fix a FTBFS issue. Without
the patch, certain architectures fail to compile with the error
"memory.c:17315:16: error: ‘PAGE_SHIFT’ undeclared (first use in this
function)"
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* Fix the calculation of the vmalloc memory region size to account for Linux
4.17 commit a7412546d8cb5ad578805060b4006f2a021b5868, titled "x86/mm:
Adjust vmalloc base and size at boot-time", which increases the region's
size from 32TB to 1280TB when 5-level pagetables are enabled. Also
presume that virtual addresses above the end of the vmalloc space up to
the beginning of vmemmap space are translatable via 5-level page tables.
Without the patch, mapped virtual addresses may fail translation in
whatever command accesses them, with errors indicating "seek error: kernel
virtual address: <mapped-address> type: <type-string>"
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* Address several Coverity Scan "RESOURCE_LEAK" issues in the following
top-level source files: cmdline.c, kvmdump.c, lkcd_v8.c, xendump.c,
symbols.c, unwind_x86_32_64.c, va_server.c and va_server_v1.c.
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* Modify the x86_64 "bt" behavior when a legitimate exception RIP value
cannot be referenced symbolically, such as when the exception occurs while
running in seccomp BPF filter code. Without the patch, the exception
frame register dump is preceded by "[exception RIP: unknown or invalid
address]", and then followed by "bt: WARNING: possibly bogus exception
frame". With the patch applied, the translation of the exception RIP will
show "[exception RIP: no symbolic reference]", and there will be no
warning message.
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* Account for the /proc/kcore VMCOREINFO PT_NOTE in Linux 4.19 and later
kernels having commit 23c85094fe1895caefdd19ef624ee687ec5f4507, titled
"proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore". The PT_NOTE information
is stored during session initialization for later display by "help
-[n|D]"; a subsequent commit will make it available for use by the crash
utility's internal pc->read_vmcoreinfo() function.
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* Second phase of support for the VMCOREINFO PT_NOTE added to the ELF header
of /proc/kcore in Linux 4.19 and later kernels. This patch introduces
support for live session /proc/kcore VMCOREINFO access by the crash
utility's internal pc->read_vmcoreinfo() function. New usage include the
initialization of the x86_64 phys_base value, and the arm64 phys_offset,
page size, and VA bits count.
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* Fix for Linux 4.20-rc1 and later kernels that contain kernel commit
5c83511bdb9832c86be20fb86b783356e2f58062, titled "x86/paravirt: Use a
single ops structure". Without the patch, the kernel may be misidentified
as an ARCH_XEN kernel, with the most noticeable result being the inability
to read vmemmap'd page structures.
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* Implemented the functionality for a new MEMBER_TYPE_NAME() macro, which
will return a pointer to the type name string of a structure member. It
is being put in place for the support of Linux 4.20 radix tree to xarray
replacements, where structure member types may be changed from
radix_tree_root structures to xarray structures.
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* First phase of support for the XArray facility. The added support is
similar to that of radix trees, but introduces completely separate
functions, structures and #defines. None of the applicable radix tree
users in the crash utility have been switched over, so this phase does not
introduce any functional changes.
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* Second phase of support for the XArray facility, which handles the
switch-over of PID handling from a radix tree to an XArray in Linux 4.20
and later kernels. Without the patch, the crash session fails during
session initialization with the message "crash: radix trees do not exist
or have changed their format".
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* Third phase of support for the XArray facility, which consolidates the
radix_tree_pair and xarray_pair structures into a unified list_pair
structure that is used by both facilities, and fixes the "bpf" command.
Without the patch, the command fails on Linux 4.20 or later kernels with
the error message "bpf: radix trees do not exist or have changed their
format".
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* Added support for usage of the XArray facility by the "files -p" option.
Without the patch, the command fails on Linux 4.20 and later kernels with
the error message "files: radix trees do not exist or have changed their
format".
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* Added support for usage of the XArray facility by the "irq" command.
Without the patch, the command fails on Linux 4.20 and later kernels with
the error message "irq: radix trees do not exist or have changed their
format".
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* Added support for usage of the XArray facility by the "ipcs" command.
Without the patch, the command may fail on Linux 4.20 and later kernels
with the error message "irq: radix trees do not exist or have changed
their format".
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* Added a new "tree -t xarray" option to display of the contents of an
XArray in Linux 4.20 and later kernels. The implementation is similar to
that of radix tree displays, but in addition, the "-p" option will also
display the index value of each entry in a radix tree or XArray.
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* Fix for the "files -p <inode>" option on a file with a large number of
pages. Without the patch, the command attempts to read radix tree node
slot entries that are RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_ENTRY types instead of page
pointers, and as a result may fail with a dump of the internal buffer
allocation stats followed by the message "files: cannot allocate any more
memory!".
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* Fix for the "ps -s" option on ARM64 if the number of tasks exceeds 2000.
Without the patch, the command ultimately fails with a dump of the
internal buffer allocation stats, followed by the message "ps: cannot
allocate any more memory!".
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* With Linux 4.20-rc1 commit 4ffe713b7587b14695c9bec26a000fc88ef54895,
titled "powerpc/mm: Increase the max addressable memory to 2PB", the PPC64
MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS value has been bumped up to 51 for
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP and CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME. The appropriate
update has been made in this patch.
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* Implemented a new plugin function for the readline library's tab
completion feature. Without the patch, the use of the default plugin from
the embedded gdb module has been seen to cause segmentation violations or
other fatal malloc/free/corruption assertions. The new plugin takes gdb
out of the picture entirely, and also restricts the matching options to
just symbol names, so as not to clutter the results with irrelevant
filenames.
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* The RHEL8 kernel will contain a backport of the Linux 4.19 kernel commit
7d4340bb92a9df78e6e28152f3dd89d9bd82146b, titled "powerpc/mm: Increase
MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS to 128TB with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP config". As a result,
the use of the THIS_KERNEL_VERSION() macro by the crash utility does not
suffice for determining the MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS value for PPC64. The
appropriate update has been made in this patch.
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* Fix for an initialization-time session failure when all three of the
following conditions exist: (1) invoking the session with "crash -d2" or
larger debug number (2) running against a Linux 3.3 or later kernel (3)
using a post-7.2.4 crash utility that has the new "kmem -n" support above
for the display of memory blocks Without the patch, the crash session
fails with the error message "crash: invalid structure member offset:
device_kobj".
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* Fix for an initialization-time segmentation violation when invoking
crash-7.2.4 or later with "crash -d2" or larger debug number.
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* Add a write operation handler to the sample /dev/crash memory driver that
enables writing to kernel memory via the "wr" command.
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* Prevent a SIGSEGV if a user attempts to input a command line that exceeds
the maximum length of 1500 bytes. The patch displays an error message and
ignores the command line.
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* Fix for the "dev -[dD]" options in kernels containing Linux 5.0-rc1 commit
7ff4f8035695984c513598e2d49c8277d5d234ca, titled "block: remove dead queue
members", in which the number of I/Os issued to a disk driver are no
longer stored in the request_queue structure. Without the patch, the
options indicate "dev: -d option not supported or applicable on this
architecture or kernel". With the patch, the "DRV" column is not shown.
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* A crash-7.1.1 commit added support for Linux version 5.x. To prevent
surprise failures due to unexpected kernel version bumps in the future,
support has been added for version 6, keeping it one step ahead.
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* Fix for a gcc-9 compilation error that occurs if an inline asm statement
clobbers the stack pointer. Without the patch, x86 and x86_64 builds will
fail to compile gdb-7.6/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c, generating an error
that indicates "error: Stack Pointer register clobbered by '%rsp' in
'asm'".
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