From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A479C43387 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E6C020859 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727882AbfAOFPR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:15:17 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37004 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725929AbfAOFPR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:15:17 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C5D5280E7B; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:15:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com (ovpn-12-57.pek2.redhat.com [10.72.12.57]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DD3716091C; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:15:07 +0800 From: Dave Young To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, Andrew Morton , Borislav Petkov Cc: AKASHI Takahiro , "Eric W. Biederman" , Baoquan He , x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] x86/kexec: fix a kexec_file_load failure Message-ID: <20190115051507.GA9893@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> References: <20181228011247.GA9999@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181228011247.GA9999@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.13 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.25]); Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:15:16 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/28/18 at 09:12am, Dave Young wrote: > The code cleanup mentioned in Fixes tag changed the behavior of > kexec_locate_mem_hole. The kexec_locate_mem_hole will try to > allocate free memory only when kbuf.mem is initialized as zero. > > But in x86 kexec_file_load implementation there are a few places > the kbuf.mem is reused like below: > /* kbuf initialized, kbuf.mem = 0 */ > ... > kexec_add_buffer() > ... > kexec_add_buffer() > > The second kexec_add_buffer will reuse previous kbuf but not > reinitialize the kbuf.mem. > > Thus kexec_file_load failed because the sanity check failed. > > So explictily reset kbuf.mem to fix the issue. > > Fixes: b6664ba42f14 ("s390, kexec_file: drop arch_kexec_mem_walk()") > Signed-off-by: Dave Young > Cc: > --- > V1 -> V2: use KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN in code. > arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 1 + > arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c | 2 ++ > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c > index f631a3f15587..6b7890c7889b 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c > @@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image) > > kbuf.memsz = kbuf.bufsz; > kbuf.buf_align = ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN; > + kbuf.mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN; > ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf); > if (ret) { > vfree((void *)image->arch.elf_headers); > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c > index 278cd07228dd..0d5efa34f359 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c > @@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ static void *bzImage64_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel, > kbuf.memsz = PAGE_ALIGN(header->init_size); > kbuf.buf_align = header->kernel_alignment; > kbuf.buf_min = MIN_KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR; > + kbuf.mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN; > ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf); > if (ret) > goto out_free_params; > @@ -448,6 +449,7 @@ static void *bzImage64_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel, > kbuf.bufsz = kbuf.memsz = initrd_len; > kbuf.buf_align = PAGE_SIZE; > kbuf.buf_min = MIN_INITRD_LOAD_ADDR; > + kbuf.mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN; > ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf); > if (ret) > goto out_free_params; > -- > 2.17.0 > Andrew, Boris, can any of you take this patch? Without this fix we have a regression. Thanks Dave