Enabling crash dump (kdump) includes
* prepare contents of ELF header of a core dump file, /proc/vmcore,
using crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), and
* add two device tree properties, "linux,usable-memory-range" and
"linux,elfcorehdr", which represent respectively a memory range
to be used by crash dump kernel and the header's location
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Tested-and-reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
With commit b6664ba42f ("s390, kexec_file: drop arch_kexec_mem_walk()"),
we introduced the KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN macro. If kexec_buf.mem is set
to this value, kexec_locate_mem_hole() will try to allocate free memory.
While other arch(s) like s390 and x86_64 already use this macro to
initialize kexec_buf.mem with, arm64 uses an equivalent value of 0.
Replace it with KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN, to keep the convention of
initializing 'kxec_buf.mem' consistent across various archs.
Cc: takahiro.akashi@linaro.org
Cc: james.morse@arm.com
Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
The documentation is in a format that is very close to ReST format.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines in order to identify paragraphs;
- fixing tables markups;
- adding some lists markups;
- marking literal blocks;
- adjust some title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mostly due to x86 and acpi conversion, several documentation
links are still pointing to the old file. Fix them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Now that kexec_walk_memblock() can do the crash-kernel placement itself
architectures that don't support kdump via kexe_file_load() need to
explicitly forbid it.
We don't support this on arm64 until the kernel can add the elfcorehdr
and usable-memory-range fields to the DT. Without these the crash-kernel
overwrites the previous kernel's memory during startup.
Add a check to refuse crash image loading.
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
With this patch, kernel verification can be done without IMA security
subsystem enabled. Turn on CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG instead.
On x86, a signature is embedded into a PE file (Microsoft's format) header
of binary. Since arm64's "Image" can also be seen as a PE file as far as
CONFIG_EFI is enabled, we adopt this format for kernel signing.
You can create a signed kernel image with:
$ sbsign --key ${KEY} --cert ${CERT} Image
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
[will: removed useless pr_debug()]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
This patch provides kexec_file_ops for "Image"-format kernel. In this
implementation, a binary is always loaded with a fixed offset identified
in text_offset field of its header.
Regarding signature verification for trusted boot, this patch doesn't
contains CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG support, which is to be added later
in this series, but file-attribute-based verification is still a viable
option by enabling IMA security subsystem.
You can sign(label) a to-be-kexec'ed kernel image on target file system
with:
$ evmctl ima_sign --key /path/to/private_key.pem Image
On live system, you must have IMA enforced with, at least, the following
security policy:
"appraise func=KEXEC_KERNEL_CHECK appraise_type=imasig"
See more details about IMA here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/linux-ima/wiki/Home/
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
