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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [for-next][PATCH 04/26] bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:57:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200218125748.5085929c@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200218132724.GC14449@zn.tnic>

On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:27:24 +0100
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> Btw, if you remove the boot config with the tool (-d) and still boot
> with "bootconfig" it says:
> 
> [    0.043958] bootconfig size -23483140 greater than max size 32767

I was aware of this but after you reported this, I don't like it.

Masami,

Can you add code to insert "magic" text at the start of the bootconfig
appended to the initrd file? Perhaps just have "BOOTCONFIG", and then
if it's not there we warn "bootconfig on command line but not found in
the initrd". I'm starting to not like relying on the size and checksum
only to determine if the bootconfig exists. We need to get this patch
before 5.6 is released.

> 
> so you need to check presence of bootconfig blob and limits in the
> parsing code too or so.
> 
> In any case, this is only my opinion, of course, and I might very well
> be missing something.

OK, what if we put it as default 'n' but we still check if "bootconfig"
is on the command line. And if it is, we warn with something like:

#ifndef CONFIG_BOOTCONFIG
	pr_err("WARNING: 'bootconfig' found on the kernel command line but CONFIG_BOOTCONFIG is not set in this kernel\n");
#endif

-- Steve


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-18 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-14 21:03 [for-next][PATCH 00/26] tracing: Updates for 5.6 Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 01/26] perf: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 02/26] tracing: Rename trace_buffer to array_buffer Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 03/26] tracing: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 04/26] bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support Steven Rostedt
2020-02-06 11:54   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-06 14:41     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-06 17:20       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-07  0:30         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-07  8:49           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-07 13:17             ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-07 14:28               ` [PATCH] bootconfig: Allocate xbc_nodes array dynamically Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-06 17:58       ` [for-next][PATCH 04/26] bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support Borislav Petkov
2020-02-06 18:10         ` Randy Dunlap
2020-02-06 22:39           ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-06 22:51             ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-07  8:59             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-07  2:46         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-07 11:41           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-07 15:06             ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-10 11:25               ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-10 15:10                 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-10 17:40                   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-11  2:02                     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-18 13:27                       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-18 17:57                         ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2020-02-18 19:38                           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-19  2:26                             ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-19  2:26                           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-19  2:26                         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-11  9:25                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 05/26] bootconfig: Load boot config from the tail of initrd Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 06/26] tools: bootconfig: Add bootconfig command Steven Rostedt
2020-02-07 13:02   ` Michael Ellerman
2020-02-07 13:39     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-07 13:55     ` [PATCH] tools/bootconfig: Fix wrong __VA_ARGS__ usage Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-08 11:10       ` Michael Ellerman
2020-02-09  4:09         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-09 13:05         ` [PATCH] tools/bootconfig: Suppress non-error messages Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-10  2:06           ` Michael Ellerman
2020-02-10  7:18             ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-10  9:50               ` Michael Ellerman
2020-02-10  9:50       ` [PATCH] tools/bootconfig: Fix wrong __VA_ARGS__ usage Michael Ellerman
2020-02-10 17:07         ` Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 07/26] tools: bootconfig: Add bootconfig test script Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 08/26] proc: bootconfig: Add /proc/bootconfig to show boot config list Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 09/26] init/main.c: Alloc initcall_command_line in do_initcall() and free it Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 10/26] bootconfig: init: Allow admin to use bootconfig for kernel command line Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 11/26] bootconfig: init: Allow admin to use bootconfig for init " Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 12/26] Documentation: bootconfig: Add a doc for extended boot config Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 13/26] tracing: Apply soft-disabled and filter to tracepoints printk Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 14/26] tracing: kprobes: Output kprobe event to printk buffer Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 15/26] tracing: kprobes: Register to dynevent earlier stage Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 16/26] tracing: Accept different type for synthetic event fields Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 17/26] tracing: Add NULL trace-array check in print_synth_event() Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 18/26] tracing/boot: Add boot-time tracing Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 19/26] tracing/boot: Add per-event settings Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 20/26] tracing/boot Add kprobe event support Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 21/26] tracing/boot: Add synthetic " Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 22/26] tracing/boot: Add instance node support Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 23/26] tracing/boot: Add cpu_mask option support Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 24/26] tracing/boot: Add function tracer filter options Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 25/26] Documentation: tracing: Add boot-time tracing document Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 26/26] tracing: trigger: Replace unneeded RCU-list traversals Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 22:11   ` Steven Rostedt

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