linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] kexec_file: Add buffer hand-over for the next kernel

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Date:   Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:59:00 -0400
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ima-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Stewart Smith <stewart@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Eric Richter <erichte@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] kexec_file: Add buffer hand-over for the next
 kernel

On Thu, 2016-08-25 at 19:17 -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 25 August 2016, 14:12:43 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> > I grabbed these two patch series.  I also merged the "IMA:
> > Demonstration code for kexec buffer passing." demonstration patch just
> > to get things a bit of testing.
> 
> Thank you very much!

Thank you, Andrew.

> > I assume that once the "ima: carry the
> > measurement list across kexec" series has stabilised, I should drop the
> > demo patch and also grab those?  If so, pelase start cc'ing me.
> 
> I'm not sure how Mimi is planning to upstream that series.

I'll re-post the patches shortly, cc'ing you.  It will contain support
for saving the binary measurement list on one architecture (eg. little
endian) and restoring it on another (eg. big endian).

Mimi