Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys

From: Baoquan He
Date: Mon Nov 04 2024 - 01:18:08 EST


Hi Coiby,

On 10/29/24 at 01:52pm, Coiby Xu wrote:
> LUKS is the standard for Linux disk encryption, widely adopted by users,
> and in some cases, such as Confidential VMs, it is a requirement. With
> kdump enabled, when the first kernel crashes, the system can boot into
> the kdump/crash kernel to dump the memory image (i.e., /proc/vmcore)
> to a specified target. However, there are two challenges when dumping
> vmcore to a LUKS-encrypted device:

I am doing RHEL code rebasing to upstream kernel, will review this next
week.

Thanks
Baoquan