On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:32:52AM +0530, Bhupesh Sharma wrote: > Changes since v1: > ---------------- > (v1 can be viewed here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2019-July/023288.html) > - Fixed the potential file descriptor leakage code legs pointed out by > Simon. > - Ran Valgrind to make sure no potential memory leakage issues are > introduced by this patchset. > > This patchset adds the support for zlib compressed kernel images > (Image.gz) for arm64 kexec-tools. > > This was discussed a bit with the arm64 kernel maintainers (see [0]) and > after discussing the pros and cons of adding this support in > kernel-space v/s in user-space, we decided it makes more sense to add > this support to the user-space kexec-tools. > > Note that this series adds support for unsigned arm64 Image.gz files > only as signing an Image.gz type file is not a easy implementation from > kexec-tools p-o-v. Also even standard signing tools like sbsign fail to > recongize the Image.gz format: > > $ sbsign --key certs/signing_key.pem --cert certs/signing_key.pem Image.gz > Invalid DOS header magic > > ... because that gzip file isn't a PE32+ that can be loaded by UEFI. > So I will work on the same in coming days and try to send a RFC > patchset for the same later on. > > [0]. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2019-June/023156.html Thanks, applied for inclusion in v2.0.20. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
