diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index 5b7709894415..2bb3468fc93a 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -655,6 +655,7 @@ static int ramoops_parse_dt(struct platform_device *pdev,
 			    struct ramoops_platform_data *pdata)
 {
 	struct device_node *of_node = pdev->dev.of_node;
+	struct device_node *parent_node;
 	struct resource *res;
 	u32 value;
 	int ret;
@@ -689,6 +690,26 @@ static int ramoops_parse_dt(struct platform_device *pdev,
 
 #undef parse_size
 
+	/*
+	 * Some old Chromebooks relied on the kernel setting the
+	 * console_size and pmsg_size to the record size since that's
+	 * what the downstream kernel did.  These same Chromebooks had
+	 * "ramoops" straight under the root node which isn't
+	 * according to the current upstream bindings (though it was
+	 * arguably acceptable under a prior version of the bindings).
+	 * Let's make those old Chromebooks work by detecting that
+	 * we're not a child of "reserved-memory" and mimicking the
+	 * expected behavior.
+	 */
+	parent_node = of_get_parent(of_node);
+	if (!of_node_name_eq(parent_node, "reserved-memory") &&
+	    !pdata->console_size && !pdata->ftrace_size &&
+	    !pdata->pmsg_size && !pdata->ecc_info.ecc_size) {
+		pdata->console_size = pdata->record_size;
+		pdata->pmsg_size = pdata->record_size;
+	}
+	of_node_put(parent_node);
+
 	return 0;
 }