1. 26 1月, 2015 1 次提交
  2. 14 12月, 2014 1 次提交
  3. 14 10月, 2014 2 次提交
  4. 30 8月, 2014 1 次提交
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      kexec: create a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE for new syscall · 74ca317c
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      Currently new system call kexec_file_load() and all the associated code
      compiles if CONFIG_KEXEC=y.  But new syscall also compiles purgatory
      code which currently uses gcc option -mcmodel=large.  This option seems
      to be available only gcc 4.4 onwards.
      
      Hiding new functionality behind a new config option will not break
      existing users of old gcc.  Those who wish to enable new functionality
      will require new gcc.  Having said that, I am trying to figure out how
      can I move away from using -mcmodel=large but that can take a while.
      
      I think there are other advantages of introducing this new config
      option.  As this option will be enabled only on x86_64, other arches
      don't have to compile generic kexec code which will never be used.  This
      new code selects CRYPTO=y and CRYPTO_SHA256=y.  And all other arches had
      to do this for CONFIG_KEXEC.  Now with introduction of new config
      option, we can remove crypto dependency from other arches.
      
      Now CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE is available only on x86_64.  So whereever I had
      CONFIG_X86_64 defined, I got rid of that.
      
      For CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE, instead of doing select CRYPTO=y, I changed it to
      "depends on CRYPTO=y".  This should be safer as "select" is not
      recursive.
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Tested-by: NShaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      74ca317c
  5. 09 8月, 2014 9 次提交
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      kexec: verify the signature of signed PE bzImage · 8e7d8381
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      This is the final piece of the puzzle of verifying kernel image signature
      during kexec_file_load() syscall.
      
      This patch calls into PE file routines to verify signature of bzImage.  If
      signature are valid, kexec_file_load() succeeds otherwise it fails.
      
      Two new config options have been introduced.  First one is
      CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG.  This option enforces that kernel has to be
      validly signed otherwise kernel load will fail.  If this option is not
      set, no signature verification will be done.  Only exception will be when
      secureboot is enabled.  In that case signature verification should be
      automatically enforced when secureboot is enabled.  But that will happen
      when secureboot patches are merged.
      
      Second config option is CONFIG_KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG.  This option
      enables signature verification support on bzImage.  If this option is not
      set and previous one is set, kernel image loading will fail because kernel
      does not have support to verify signature of bzImage.
      
      I tested these patches with both "pesign" and "sbsign" signed bzImages.
      
      I used signing_key.priv key and signing_key.x509 cert for signing as
      generated during kernel build process (if module signing is enabled).
      
      Used following method to sign bzImage.
      
      pesign
      ======
      - Convert DER format cert to PEM format cert
      openssl x509 -in signing_key.x509 -inform DER -out signing_key.x509.PEM -outform
      PEM
      
      - Generate a .p12 file from existing cert and private key file
      openssl pkcs12 -export -out kernel-key.p12 -inkey signing_key.priv -in
      signing_key.x509.PEM
      
      - Import .p12 file into pesign db
      pk12util -i /tmp/kernel-key.p12 -d /etc/pki/pesign
      
      - Sign bzImage
      pesign -i /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-rc3+ -o /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-rc3+.signed.pesign
      -c "Glacier signing key - Magrathea" -s
      
      sbsign
      ======
      sbsign --key signing_key.priv --cert signing_key.x509.PEM --output
      /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-rc3+.signed.sbsign /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-rc3+
      
      Patch details:
      
      Well all the hard work is done in previous patches.  Now bzImage loader
      has just call into that code and verify whether bzImage signature are
      valid or not.
      
      Also create two config options.  First one is CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG.
      This option enforces that kernel has to be validly signed otherwise kernel
      load will fail.  If this option is not set, no signature verification will
      be done.  Only exception will be when secureboot is enabled.  In that case
      signature verification should be automatically enforced when secureboot is
      enabled.  But that will happen when secureboot patches are merged.
      
      Second config option is CONFIG_KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG.  This option
      enables signature verification support on bzImage.  If this option is not
      set and previous one is set, kernel image loading will fail because kernel
      does not have support to verify signature of bzImage.
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
      Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
      Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8e7d8381
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      kexec: support for kexec on panic using new system call · dd5f7260
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      This patch adds support for loading a kexec on panic (kdump) kernel usning
      new system call.
      
      It prepares ELF headers for memory areas to be dumped and for saved cpu
      registers.  Also prepares the memory map for second kernel and limits its
      boot to reserved areas only.
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
      Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
      Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dd5f7260
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      kexec-bzImage64: support for loading bzImage using 64bit entry · 27f48d3e
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      This is loader specific code which can load bzImage and set it up for
      64bit entry.  This does not take care of 32bit entry or real mode entry.
      
      32bit mode entry can be implemented if somebody needs it.
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
      Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
      Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      27f48d3e
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      kexec: load and relocate purgatory at kernel load time · 12db5562
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      Load purgatory code in RAM and relocate it based on the location.
      Relocation code has been inspired by module relocation code and purgatory
      relocation code in kexec-tools.
      
      Also compute the checksums of loaded kexec segments and store them in
      purgatory.
      
      Arch independent code provides this functionality so that arch dependent
      bootloaders can make use of it.
      
      Helper functions are provided to get/set symbol values in purgatory which
      are used by bootloaders later to set things like stack and entry point of
      second kernel etc.
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
      Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
      Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      12db5562
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      kexec: implementation of new syscall kexec_file_load · cb105258
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      Previous patch provided the interface definition and this patch prvides
      implementation of new syscall.
      
      Previously segment list was prepared in user space.  Now user space just
      passes kernel fd, initrd fd and command line and kernel will create a
      segment list internally.
      
      This patch contains generic part of the code.  Actual segment preparation
      and loading is done by arch and image specific loader.  Which comes in
      next patch.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
      Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
      Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cb105258
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      kexec: new syscall kexec_file_load() declaration · f0895685
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      This is the new syscall kexec_file_load() declaration/interface.  I have
      reserved the syscall number only for x86_64 so far.  Other architectures
      (including i386) can reserve syscall number when they enable the support
      for this new syscall.
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
      Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
      Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f0895685
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      kexec: use common function for kimage_normal_alloc() and kimage_crash_alloc() · 255aedd9
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      kimage_normal_alloc() and kimage_crash_alloc() are doing lot of similar
      things and differ only little.  So instead of having two separate
      functions create a common function kimage_alloc_init() and pass it the
      "flags" argument which tells whether it is normal kexec or kexec_on_panic.
       And this function should be able to deal with both the cases.
      
      This consolidation also helps later where we can use a common function
      kimage_file_alloc_init() to handle normal and crash cases for new file
      based kexec syscall.
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
      Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
      Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      255aedd9
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      kexec: move segment verification code in a separate function · dabe7862
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      Previously do_kimage_alloc() will allocate a kimage structure, copy
      segment list from user space and then do the segment list sanity
      verification.
      
      Break down this function in 3 parts.  do_kimage_alloc_init() to do actual
      allocation and basic initialization of kimage structure.
      copy_user_segment_list() to copy segment list from user space and
      sanity_check_segment_list() to verify the sanity of segment list as passed
      by user space.
      
      In later patches, I need to only allocate kimage and not copy segment list
      from user space.  So breaking down in smaller functions enables re-use of
      code at other places.
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
      Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
      Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dabe7862
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      kexec: rename unusebale_pages to unusable_pages · 7d3e2bca
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      Let's use the more common "unusable".
      
      This patch was originally written and posted by Boris. I am including it
      in this patch series.
      Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
      Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
      Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7d3e2bca
  6. 31 7月, 2014 2 次提交
  7. 24 6月, 2014 1 次提交
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      kexec: save PG_head_mask in VMCOREINFO · b3acc56b
      Petr Tesarik 提交于
      To allow filtering of huge pages, makedumpfile must be able to identify
      them in the dump.  This can be done by checking the appropriate page
      flag, so communicate its value to makedumpfile through the VMCOREINFO
      interface.
      
      There's only one small catch.  Depending on how many page flags are
      available on a given architecture, this bit can be called PG_head or
      PG_compound.
      
      I sent a similar patch back in 2012, but Eric Biederman did not like
      using an #ifdef.  So, this time I'm adding a common symbol
      (PG_head_mask) instead.
      
      See https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/28/91 for the previous version.
      Signed-off-by: NPetr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
      Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b3acc56b
  8. 07 6月, 2014 1 次提交
  9. 28 5月, 2014 1 次提交
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      powerpc, kexec: Fix "Processor X is stuck" issue during kexec from ST mode · 011e4b02
      Srivatsa S. Bhat 提交于
      If we try to perform a kexec when the machine is in ST (Single-Threaded) mode
      (ppc64_cpu --smt=off), the kexec operation doesn't succeed properly, and we
      get the following messages during boot:
      
      [    0.089866] POWER8 performance monitor hardware support registered
      [    0.089985] power8-pmu: PMAO restore workaround active.
      [    5.095419] Processor 1 is stuck.
      [   10.097933] Processor 2 is stuck.
      [   15.100480] Processor 3 is stuck.
      [   20.102982] Processor 4 is stuck.
      [   25.105489] Processor 5 is stuck.
      [   30.108005] Processor 6 is stuck.
      [   35.110518] Processor 7 is stuck.
      [   40.113369] Processor 9 is stuck.
      [   45.115879] Processor 10 is stuck.
      [   50.118389] Processor 11 is stuck.
      [   55.120904] Processor 12 is stuck.
      [   60.123425] Processor 13 is stuck.
      [   65.125970] Processor 14 is stuck.
      [   70.128495] Processor 15 is stuck.
      [   75.131316] Processor 17 is stuck.
      
      Note that only the sibling threads are stuck, while the primary threads (0, 8,
      16 etc) boot just fine. Looking closer at the previous step of kexec, we observe
      that kexec tries to wakeup (bring online) the sibling threads of all the cores,
      before performing kexec:
      
      [ 9464.131231] Starting new kernel
      [ 9464.148507] kexec: Waking offline cpu 1.
      [ 9464.148552] kexec: Waking offline cpu 2.
      [ 9464.148600] kexec: Waking offline cpu 3.
      [ 9464.148636] kexec: Waking offline cpu 4.
      [ 9464.148671] kexec: Waking offline cpu 5.
      [ 9464.148708] kexec: Waking offline cpu 6.
      [ 9464.148743] kexec: Waking offline cpu 7.
      [ 9464.148779] kexec: Waking offline cpu 9.
      [ 9464.148815] kexec: Waking offline cpu 10.
      [ 9464.148851] kexec: Waking offline cpu 11.
      [ 9464.148887] kexec: Waking offline cpu 12.
      [ 9464.148922] kexec: Waking offline cpu 13.
      [ 9464.148958] kexec: Waking offline cpu 14.
      [ 9464.148994] kexec: Waking offline cpu 15.
      [ 9464.149030] kexec: Waking offline cpu 17.
      
      Instrumenting this piece of code revealed that the cpu_up() operation actually
      fails with -EBUSY. Thus, only the primary threads of all the cores are online
      during kexec, and hence this is a sure-shot receipe for disaster, as explained
      in commit e8e5c215 (powerpc/kexec: Fix orphaned offline CPUs across kexec),
      as well as in the comment above wake_offline_cpus().
      
      It turns out that cpu_up() was returning -EBUSY because the variable
      'cpu_hotplug_disabled' was set to 1; and this disabling of CPU hotplug was done
      by migrate_to_reboot_cpu() inside kernel_kexec().
      
      Now, migrate_to_reboot_cpu() was originally written with the assumption that
      any further code will not need to perform CPU hotplug, since we are anyway in
      the reboot path. However, kexec is clearly not such a case, since we depend on
      onlining CPUs, atleast on powerpc.
      
      So re-enable cpu-hotplug after returning from migrate_to_reboot_cpu() in the
      kexec path, to fix this regression in kexec on powerpc.
      
      Also, wrap the cpu_up() in powerpc kexec code within a WARN_ON(), so that we
      can catch such issues more easily in the future.
      
      Fixes: c97102ba (kexec: migrate to reboot cpu)
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      011e4b02
  10. 08 4月, 2014 1 次提交
  11. 04 4月, 2014 1 次提交
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      kernel: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code · c96d6660
      Paul Gortmaker 提交于
      Code that is obj-y (always built-in) or dependent on a bool Kconfig
      (built-in or absent) can never be modular.  So using module_init as an
      alias for __initcall can be somewhat misleading.
      
      Fix these up now, so that we can relocate module_init from init.h into
      module.h in the future.  If we don't do this, we'd have to add module.h
      to obviously non-modular code, and that would be a worse thing.
      
      The audit targets the following module_init users for change:
       kernel/user.c                  obj-y
       kernel/kexec.c                 bool KEXEC (one instance per arch)
       kernel/profile.c               bool PROFILING
       kernel/hung_task.c             bool DETECT_HUNG_TASK
       kernel/sched/stats.c           bool SCHEDSTATS
       kernel/user_namespace.c        bool USER_NS
      
      Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs.  one of the
      priority categorized subgroups.  As __initcall gets mapped onto
      device_initcall, our use of subsys_initcall (which makes sense for these
      files) will thus change this registration from level 6-device to level
      4-subsys (i.e.  slightly earlier).  However no observable impact of that
      difference has been observed during testing.
      
      Also, two instances of missing ";" at EOL are fixed in kexec.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c96d6660
  12. 06 3月, 2014 1 次提交
  13. 28 1月, 2014 1 次提交
  14. 24 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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      kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load · 7984754b
      Kees Cook 提交于
      For general-purpose (i.e.  distro) kernel builds it makes sense to build
      with CONFIG_KEXEC to allow end users to choose what kind of things they
      want to do with kexec.  However, in the face of trying to lock down a
      system with such a kernel, there needs to be a way to disable kexec_load
      (much like module loading can be disabled).  Without this, it is too easy
      for the root user to modify kernel memory even when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
      and modules_disabled are set.  With this change, it is still possible to
      load an image for use later, then disable kexec_load so the image (or lack
      of image) can't be altered.
      
      The intention is for using this in environments where "perfect"
      enforcement is hard.  Without a verified boot, along with verified
      modules, and along with verified kexec, this is trying to give a system a
      better chance to defend itself (or at least grow the window of
      discoverability) against attack in the face of a privilege escalation.
      
      In my mind, I consider several boot scenarios:
      
      1) Verified boot of read-only verified root fs loading fd-based
         verification of kexec images.
      2) Secure boot of writable root fs loading signed kexec images.
      3) Regular boot loading kexec (e.g. kcrash) image early and locking it.
      4) Regular boot with no control of kexec image at all.
      
      1 and 2 don't exist yet, but will soon once the verified kexec series has
      landed.  4 is the state of things now.  The gap between 2 and 4 is too
      large, so this change creates scenario 3, a middle-ground above 4 when 2
      and 1 are not possible for a system.
      Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7984754b
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