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-rw-r--r--fs/proc/Kconfig3
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/vmcore.c9
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig
index 4c3dcb718961..cba429db95d9 100644
--- a/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ config PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
snapshot.
If you say Y here, the collected device dumps will be added
- as ELF notes to /proc/vmcore.
+ as ELF notes to /proc/vmcore. You can still disable device
+ dump using the kernel command line option 'novmcoredd'.
config PROC_SYSCTL
bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EXPERT
diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
index 57957c91c6df..7bcc92add72c 100644
--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
@@ -54,6 +55,9 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_vmcore;
/* Device Dump list and mutex to synchronize access to list */
static LIST_HEAD(vmcoredd_list);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(vmcoredd_mutex);
+
+static bool vmcoredd_disabled;
+core_param(novmcoredd, vmcoredd_disabled, bool, 0);
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP */
/* Device Dump Size */
@@ -1452,6 +1456,11 @@ int vmcore_add_device_dump(struct vmcoredd_data *data)
size_t data_size;
int ret;
+ if (vmcoredd_disabled) {
+ pr_err_once("Device dump is disabled\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
if (!data || !strlen(data->dump_name) ||
!data->vmcoredd_callback || !data->size)
return -EINVAL;