linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] kexec_file_load implementation for PowerPC

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2016 15:02:58 +0800
From:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To:	Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] kexec_file_load implementation for PowerPC

On 06/12/16 at 12:10am, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patch series implements the kexec_file_load system call on PowerPC.
> 
> It starts by removing an x86 assumption from kexec_file: kexec_add_buffer uses
> iomem to find reserved memory ranges, but PowerPC uses the memblock subsystem.
> Hooks are added so that each arch can specify how memory ranges can be found.
> 
> Also, the memory-walking logic in kexec_add_buffer is useful in this
> implementation to find a free area for the purgatory's stack, so that same
> patch moves that logic to kexec_locate_mem_hole.
> 
> The kexec_file_load system call needs to apply relocations to the purgatory
> but adding code for that would duplicate functionality with the module loading
> mechanism, which also needs to apply relocations to the kernel modules.
> Therefore, this patch series factors out the module relocation code so that it
> can be shared.
> 
> One thing that is still missing is crashkernel support, which I intend to
> submit shortly.

But seems there's no error handling in patches about KEXEC_ON_CRASH?
It would be good to either sending out the whole set or handle the error
cases correctly.

[snip]

Thanks
Dave