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. This patchset updates the elfcorehdr on CPU or memory changes. However, changes to the elfcorehdr in turn cause purgatory integrity checking to fail (at crash time, and no vmcore created). Therefore, this patch explicitly excludes the elfcorehdr segment from the list of segments used to create the digest. By doing so, this permits updates to the elfcorehdr in response to CPU or memory changes, and avoids the need to also recompute the hash digest and reload purgatory. 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