From f7cc804a9fd404e77a0c8b329443eae99f35ab67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric DeVolder Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 17:44:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. The digest is embedded into the purgatory image prior to placing in memory. Updates to the elfcorehdr in response to CPU and memory changes would cause the purgatory integrity checking to fail (at crash time, and no vmcore created). Therefore, the elfcorehdr segment is explicitly excluded from the purgatory digest, enabling updates to the elfcorehdr while also avoiding the need to recompute the hash digest and reload purgatory. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-4-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder Suggested-by: Baoquan He Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain Acked-by: Hari Bathini Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Akhil Raj Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Young Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Mimi Zohar Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Valentin Schneider Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/kexec_file.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c index 453b7a513540..e2ec9d7b9a1f 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c @@ -726,6 +726,12 @@ 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 (j == image->elfcorehdr_index) + continue; +#endif + ksegment = &image->segment[i]; /* * Skip purgatory as it will be modified once we put digest