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. This digest is embedded into the purgatory image prior to placing purgatory in memory. Since hotplug events cause changes to the elfcorehdr, purgatory integrity checking fails (at crash time, and no kdump created). As a result, this change explicitly excludes the elfcorehdr segment from the list of segments used to create the digest. By doing so, this permits changes to the elfcorehdr in response to hotplug events, without having to also reload purgatory due to the change to the digest. Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kexec_file.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c index ead3443e7f9d..2f3b20b52e5d 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c @@ -723,6 +723,12 @@ 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 (image->elfcorehdr_index_valid && (j == image->elfcorehdr_index)) + continue; +#endif + ksegment = &image->segment[i]; /* * Skip purgatory as it will be modified once we put digest -- 2.31.1 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec