[Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash gcore command, version 1.3.0-rc is released

[Dave Anderson]

Hello Daisuke,

Thanks for the update -- I will post my results later.

However, I note that you did not make the small ARM64 update
that I emailed to you last week:

This should be changed:
 
  #ifdef ARM64
  #define ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE 4096

to:

  #ifdef ARM64
  #define ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE PAGESIZE()

Please make that change.

Thanks,
  Dave



----- Original Message -----
> This is the release of crash gcore command, version 1.3.0-rc.
> 
> The version 1.3.0 is going to newly add ARM64 support, and the
> purpose of this rc version release is for verification by other
> architecture maintainers. Please give me a verfication result as a
> reply to this mail.
> 
> The remaining changes are all bugfixes.
> 
> ChangeLog:
> 
>  - Add ARM64 support. In addition to native ARM64 build, like crash
>    utility, we can build x86_64 executable of crash gcore command for
>    ARM64 crash dump by make target=ARM64, just like crash utility.
>    (anderson at redhat.com)
> 
>  - Fix a bug that registers in NT_PRSTATUS note information is
>    broken. This had been since v1.2.2 when O(1) note informaiton
>    collection was added. Without this fix, we can never get reliable
>    register values for failure analysis.
>    (weishu at marvell.com)
> 
>  - Fix a bug that NT_386_IOPERM note information is not collected. So
>    far, ioperm_get() had always returned 1. As a result, NT_386_IOPERM
>    note information had never been not included in a generated core
>    file even if it is available for a given task on a given crash
>    dump.
>    (d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com)
> 
>  - Add new member offset initialization for struct
>    nsproxy::pid_ns_for_children. In upstream, the following patch
>    renamed struct nsproxy::pid_ns into struct
>    nsproxy::pid_ns_for_children.
> 
>     $ git log -1 c2b1df2e
>     commit c2b1df2eb42978073ec27c99cc199d20ae48b849
>     Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
>     Date:   Thu Aug 22 11:39:16 2013 -0700
> 
>         Rename nsproxy.pid_ns to nsproxy.pid_ns_for_children
> 
>         nsproxy.pid_ns is *not* the task's pid namespace.  The name
> should clarify
>         that.
> 
>         This makes it more obvious that setns on a pid namespace is weird --
>         it won't change the pid namespace shown in procfs.
> 
>         Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
>         Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
>         Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> 
>    Without this fix, gcore exited abnormally at its initialization
>    part and so core file is never generated.
>    (d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com)
> 
>  - Fix a bug that a wrong way of checking return value of
>    fopen(). fopen() returns NULL in case of error, but gcore had seen
>    it as returning a minus integer. As a result, gcore continues
>    execution after the check even in case of error and then exits
>    abnormally at the first call of fwrite() with the broken file
>    pointer gcore failed to open.
> 
>    From users' viewpoint, we face this bug when trying to overwrite an
>    existing corefile with more priviledged permission and resulting in
>    EPERM failure.
> 
>    (d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com)
> 
> MD5 CheckSum:
> 
> $ md5sum ./crash-gcore-command-1.3.0-rc.tar.gz
> 0b841985c084e790966800edfd1b5d43  ./crash-gcore-command-1.3.0-rc.tar.gz
> 
> --
> Thanks.
> HATAYAMA, Daisuke
> 
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