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authorEric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com>2023-08-14 17:44:41 -0400
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-08-24 16:25:13 -0700
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kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
When a crash kernel is loaded via the kexec_file_load() syscall, the kernel places the various segments (ie crash kernel, crash initrd, boot_params, elfcorehdr, purgatory, etc) in memory. For those architectures that utilize purgatory, a hash digest of the segments is calculated for integrity checking. The digest is embedded into the purgatory image prior to placing in memory. Updates to the elfcorehdr in response to CPU and memory changes would cause the purgatory integrity checking to fail (at crash time, and no vmcore created). Therefore, the elfcorehdr segment is explicitly excluded from the purgatory digest, enabling updates to the elfcorehdr while also avoiding the need to recompute the hash digest and reload purgatory. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-4-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com> Suggested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kexec_file.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec_file.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index 453b7a513540..e2ec9d7b9a1f 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -726,6 +726,12 @@ static int kexec_calculate_store_digests(struct kimage *image)
for (j = i = 0; i < image->nr_segments; i++) {
struct kexec_segment *ksegment;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
+ /* Exclude elfcorehdr segment to allow future changes via hotplug */
+ if (j == image->elfcorehdr_index)
+ continue;
+#endif
+
ksegment = &image->segment[i];
/*
* Skip purgatory as it will be modified once we put digest