user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/kexec.h, branch v3.16.1

kexec/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types

2014-03-06T15:30:46Z

In order to allow the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE macro generate code that performs proper zero and sign extension convert all 64 bit parameters to their corresponding 32 bit compat counterparts. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load

2014-01-24T00:37:03Z

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: Kees Cook Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Eric Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

PCI: Disable Bus Master only on kexec reboot

2013-12-07T21:20:28Z

Add a flag to tell the PCI subsystem that kernel is shutting down in preparation to kexec a kernel. Add code in PCI subsystem to use this flag to clear Bus Master bit on PCI devices only in case of kexec reboot. This fixes a power-off problem on Acer Aspire V5-573G and likely other machines and avoids any other issues caused by clearing Bus Master bit on PCI devices in normal shutdown path. The problem was introduced by b566a22c2332 ("PCI: disable Bus Master on PCI device shutdown"). This patch is based on discussion at http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=138425645204355&w=2 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63861 Reported-by: Chang Liu Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+

x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896M

2013-04-17T19:35:33Z

Vivek found old kexec-tools does not work new kernel anymore. So change back crashkernel= back to old behavoir, and add crashkernel_high= to let user decide if buffer could be above 4G, and also new kexec-tools will be needed. -v2: let crashkernel=X override crashkernel_high= update description about _high will be ignored by crashkernel=X -v3: update description about kernel-parameters.txt according to Vivek. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-4-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation

2013-01-30T03:32:58Z

During kdump kernel's booting stage, it need to find low ram for swiotlb buffer when system does not support intel iommu/dmar remapping. kexed-tools is appending memmap=exactmap and range from /proc/iomem with "Crash kernel", and that range is above 4G for 64bit after boot protocol 2.12. We need to add another range in /proc/iomem like "Crash kernel low", so kexec-tools could find that info and append to kdump kernel command line. Try to reserve some under 4G if the normal "Crash kernel" is above 4G. User could specify the size with crashkernel_low=XX[KMG]. -v2: fix warning that is found by Fengguang's test robot. -v3: move out get_mem_size change to another patch, to solve compiling warning that is found by Borislav Petkov -v4: user must specify crashkernel_low if system does not support intel or amd iommu. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-31-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48Z

Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Dave Jones

kexec: export kexec.h to user space

2012-06-01T00:49:30Z

Add userspace definitions, guard all relevant kernel structures. While at it document stuff and remove now useless userspace hint. It is easy to add the relevant system call to respective libc's, but it seems pointless to have to duplicate the data structures. This is based on the kexec-tools headers, with the exception of just using int on return (succes or failure) and using size_t instead of 'unsigned long int' for the number of segments argument of kexec_load(). Signed-off-by: maximilian attems Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Haren Myneni Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kdump: define KEXEC_NOTE_BYTES arch specific for s390x

2012-01-23T16:38:48Z

kdump only allocates memory for the prstatus ELF note. For s390x, besides of prstatus multiple ELF notes for various different register types are stored. Therefore the currently allocated memory is not sufficient. With this patch the KEXEC_NOTE_BYTES macro can be defined by architecture code and for s390x it is set to the correct size now. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming)

2011-11-01T00:46:07Z

Quoth Andrew: - Most of MM. Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their butts and review some threaded hugepages patches. - alpha - vfs bits - drivers/misc - a few core kerenl tweaks - printk() features - MAINTAINERS updates - backlight merge - leds merge - various lib/ updates - checkpatch updates * akpm: (127 commits) epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto and simple_strto as obsolete llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above() lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set() drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed ...

treewide: use printf not attribute__((format(printf,...)))

2011-11-01T00:30:54Z

Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification. Standardized the location of __printf too. Done via script and a little typing. $ grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] -w "__attribute__" * | \ grep -vP "^(tools|scripts|include/linux/compiler-gcc.h)" | \ xargs perl -n -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s/\b__attribute__\s*$\s*\(\s*format\s*\(\s*printf\s*,\s*(.+)\s*,\s*(.+)\s*$\s*\)\s*\)/__printf($1, $2)/g ; print; }' [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert arch bits] Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds