This patch adds core dump file support to ELF file loader. This can be
used by kexec based hibernation to load hibernated image, which is
from /proc/vmcore, a core dump file.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang at intel.com>
---
kexec/kexec-elf-exec.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kexec/kexec-elf-exec.c
+++ b/kexec/kexec-elf-exec.c
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ int build_elf_exec_info(const char *buf,
if (result < 0) {
return result;
}
- if ((ehdr->e_type != ET_EXEC) && (ehdr->e_type != ET_DYN)) {
+ if ((ehdr->e_type != ET_EXEC) && (ehdr->e_type != ET_DYN) &&
+ (ehdr->e_type != ET_CORE)) {
/* not an ELF executable */
if (probe_debug) {
fprintf(stderr, "Not ELF type ET_EXEC or ET_DYN\n");
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