Re: [PATCH v2] x86, kaslr: export offset in VMCOREINFO ELF notes

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* Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Eugene Surovegin <surovegin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Include kASLR offset in VMCOREINFO ELF notes to assist in debugging.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <surovegin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
>  - make sure "From:" got sent correctly
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> index 4eabc160696f..679cef0791cd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> @@ -279,5 +279,7 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
>  	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(node_data);
>  	VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(node_data, MAX_NUMNODES);
>  #endif
> +	vmcoreinfo_append_str("KERNELOFFSET=%lx\n",
> +			      (unsigned long)&_text - __START_KERNEL);
>  }

I've Cc:-ed Adrian Hunter, who has sent the following kaslr fixes for 
perf yesterday:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/24/220

Adrian, is this patch the right solution from the perf tooling 
perspective?

Thanks,

	Ingo

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