Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13][V3] kexec: A new system call to allow in kernel loading

[Dave Young]

On 06/17/14 at 10:24am, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 01:42:03PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 06/03/14 at 09:06am, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > This is V3 of the patchset. Previous versions were posted here.
> > > 
> > > V1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/20/540
> > > V2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/27/331
> > > 
> > > Changes since v2:
> > > 
> > > - Took care of most of the review comments from V2.
> > > - Added support for kexec/kdump on EFI systems.
> > > - Dropped support for loading ELF vmlinux.
> > > 
> > > This patch series is generated on top of 3.15.0-rc8. It also requires a
> > > two patch cleanup series which is sitting in -tip tree here.
> > > 
> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/log/?h=x86/boot
> > > 
> > > This patch series does not do kernel signature verification yet. I plan
> > > to post another patch series for that. Now bzImage is already signed
> > > with PKCS7 signature I plan to parse and verify those signatures.
> > > 
> > > Primary goal of this patchset is to prepare groundwork so that kernel
> > > image can be signed and signatures be verified during kexec load. This
> > > should help with two things.
> > > 
> > > - It should allow kexec/kdump on secureboot enabled machines.
> > > 
> > > - In general it can help even without secureboot. By being able to verify
> > >   kernel image signature in kexec, it should help with avoiding module
> > >   signing restrictions. Matthew Garret showed how to boot into a custom
> > >   kernel, modify first kernel's memory and then jump back to old kernel and
> > >   bypass any policy one wants to.
> > > 
> > > Any feedback is welcome.
> > 
> > Hi, Vivek
> > 
> > For efi ioremapping case, in 3.15 kernel efi runtime maps will not be saved
> > if efi=old_map is used. So you need detect this and fail the kexec file load.
> 
> Dave,
> 
> Instead of failing kexec load in case of efi=old_map, I think it will be
> better to just not pass runtime map in bootparams. That way user can
> pass "noefi" on commandline and kdump should still work.  (Like it works
> with user space implementation).
> 
> What do you think?

Yes, agree that is better and align with kexec-tools logic.

Thanks
Dave
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