Re: [PATCH 00/11] kexec_file: Clean up purgatory load

[Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>]

Hi Philipp,
On 02/26/18 at 04:16pm, Philipp Rudo wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody
> 
> following the discussion with Dave and AKASHI, here are the common code
> patches extracted from my recent patch set (Add kexec_file_load support to
> s390) [1]. The patches were extracted to allow upstream integration together
> with AKASHI's common code patches before the arch code gets adjusted to the
> new base.
> 
> The reason for this series is to prepare common code for adding
> kexec_file_load to s390 as well as cleaning up the mis-use of the sh_offset
> field during purgatory load. In detail this series contains:
> 
> Patch #1&2: Minor cleanups/fixes.
> 
> Patch #3-9: Clean up the purgatory load/relocation code. Especially remove
> the mis-use of the purgatory_info->sechdrs->sh_offset field, currently
> holding a pointer into either kexec_purgatory (ro) or purgatory_buf (rw)
> depending on the section. With these patches the section address will be
> calculated verbosely and sh_offset will contain the offset of the section
> in the stripped purgatory binary (purgatory_buf).
> 
> Patch #10: Allows architectures to set the purgatory load address. This
> patch is important for s390 as the kernel and purgatory have to be loaded
> to fixed addresses. In current code this is impossible as the purgatory
> load is opaque to the architecture.
> 
> Patch #11: Moves x86 purgatories sha implementation to common lib/
> directory to allow reuse in other architectures.
> 
> The patches apply to v4.16-rc3. There are no changes compared to [1] (all
> requested changes only affected s390 code). Please note that I had to touch
> arch code for x86 and power a little. In theory this should not change the
> behavior but I don't have a way to test it. Cross-compiling with
> defconfig [2] works fine for both.
> 
> Thanks
> Philipp
> 
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2018-February/019926.html
> [2] On x86 with the orc unwinder and stack validation turned off. objtool
>     SEGFAULTs on s390...
> 
> Philipp Rudo (11):
>   kexec_file: Silence compile warnings
>   kexec_file: Remove checks in kexec_purgatory_load
>   kexec_file: Make purgatory_info->ehdr const
>   kexec_file: Search symbols in read-only kexec_purgatory
>   kexec_file: Use read-only sections in arch_kexec_apply_relocations*
>   kexec_file: Split up __kexec_load_puragory
>   kexec_file: Simplify kexec_purgatory_setup_sechdrs 1
>   kexec_file: Simplify kexec_purgatory_setup_sechdrs 2
>   kexec_file: Remove mis-use of sh_offset field
>   kexec_file: Allow archs to set purgatory load address
>   kexec_file: Move purgatories sha256 to common code
> 
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/kexec_elf_64.c             |   9 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c              |   8 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c             |  66 ++---
>  arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile                    |   3 +
>  arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c                 |   2 +-
>  include/linux/kexec.h                          |  38 +--
>  {arch/x86/purgatory => include/linux}/sha256.h |  10 +-
>  kernel/kexec_file.c                            | 375 ++++++++++++-------------
>  {arch/x86/purgatory => lib}/sha256.c           |   4 +-
>  9 files changed, 244 insertions(+), 271 deletions(-)
>  rename {arch/x86/purgatory => include/linux}/sha256.h (63%)
>  rename {arch/x86/purgatory => lib}/sha256.c (99%)
> 
> -- 
> 2.13.5
> 

I did a test on x86, but it failed:
[   15.636489] kexec: Undefined symbol: memcpy
[   15.636496] kexec-bzImage64: Loading purgatory failed
[   33.603356] kexec: Undefined symbol: memcpy
[   33.603362] kexec-bzImage64: Loading purgatory failed

I think this relates to the sha256 splitting patch.

After reverting the sha256 patch (the last one), rebuilt a kernel but it still
failed to load:

# kexec -d -s -l /home/dyoung/git/linux-x86/sign/bzImage.signed 
Try gzip decompression.
Try LZMA decompression.
lzma_decompress_file: read on /home/dyoung/git/linux-x86/sign/bzImage.signed of 65536 bytes failed

Thanks
Dave