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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:12:36 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@...oo.de> To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] swap image signature check upon resume On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:46:48PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday, 6 of December 2007, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Hi Pavel, > > hi Rafael, > > > > after a quick search i couldn't find anything dealing with the topic in the > > subject line so here we go: > > > > One sometimes can mix up (and by one i mean me) the > > kernel images one boots after having suspended the machine previously. There can > > be at least two reasons for that: > > > > 1. too many kernels in grub and having forgotten with which i suspended. > > 2. compile and install a new kernel and forget about it, suspend in the evening > > and then boot with the new kernel; > > > > in both cases you end up staring at fsck since they filesystems haven't been unmounted, > > of course. Or at least see the warning message of some journal recovery whisk away. > > > > In order to alleviate that, one could probably go, imho, and write in the swsusp_header > > the kernel version which suspended the machine (UTS_RELEASE) alongside > > SWSUSP_SIG and check that against the kernel version of the image just booting. > > If they match then all is well, if not, one could > > > > a) issue a BIG FAT WARNING and reboot telling the user to select the proper > > image > > b) ask the user what to do: > > - proceed as if "noresume" has been entered on the kernel command line > > - reboot after issuing the kernel version which suspended the machine > > - > > c)... > > > > In case you guys think something like that might be of use i can come up with a > > patch in the next coupla days... > > Well, there's a patchset in the current mainline that allows you to use > arbitrary (sufficiently new) kernel to load the image and then restore the > image kernel. So, you can hibernate 2.6.24-rc3 and use 2.6.24-rc2 to restore > it, for example. > > I'm going to do that for i386 too. right, this is d307c4a8e826c44f9633bd3f7e60d0491e7d885a (Hibernation: Arbitrary boot kernel support - generic code), i should've seen that. What's the status of those bits, from a quick scan it seems they need some rewiring (Kconfig, e.g. CONFIG_ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER etc..) and arch-specific save and restore functions? -- Regards/Gruß, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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