On 11/27/18 at 02:16pm, Kees Cook wrote: > Why is KERNELOFFSET= not sufficient? > > See commit b6085a865762 ("x86, kaslr: export offset in VMCOREINFO ELF notes") > > + vmcoreinfo_append_str("KERNELOFFSET=%lx\n", > + (unsigned long)&_text - __START_KERNEL); KERNELOFFSET is virtual address delta after kernel text KASLR, namely the offset from the original default kernel text virtual address, 0xffffffff88000000. While after memory region KASLR in kernel_randomize_memory(), the starting address of the direct mapping of physical memory, PAGE_OFFSET, is changed too. We need get it to analyze memory in makedumpfile/crash. Currently we deduce it from elf program segment of kcore: Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align ...... LOAD 0x00000a62c0004000 0xffff8a62c0001000 0x0000000000001000 0x000000000009c000 0x000000000009c000 RWE 1000 page_offset = 0xffff8a62c0001000 - 0x0000000000001000; Since we put the direct mapping segments at the bottom part of kcore, we can always get page_offset right. Thanks Baoquan > > -Kees > > >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c > >> index 4c8acdfdc5a7..6161d77c5bfb 100644 > >> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c > >> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c > >> @@ -356,6 +356,9 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void) > >> VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(init_top_pgt); > >> vmcoreinfo_append_str("NUMBER(pgtable_l5_enabled)=%d\n", > >> pgtable_l5_enabled()); > >> +#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE > >> + VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(page_offset_base); > >> +#endif > >> > >> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA > >> VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(node_data); > > -- > Kees Cook > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec