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    kexec: introduce a protection mechanism for the crashkernel reserved memory · 9b492cf5
    Xunlei Pang authored
    
    
    For the cases that some kernel (module) path stamps the crash reserved
    memory(already mapped by the kernel) where has been loaded the second
    kernel data, the kdump kernel will probably fail to boot when panic
    happens (or even not happens) leaving the culprit at large, this is
    unacceptable.
    
    The patch introduces a mechanism for detecting such cases:
    
    1) After each crash kexec loading, it simply marks the reserved memory
       regions readonly since we no longer access it after that.  When someone
       stamps the region, the first kernel will panic and trigger the kdump.
       The weak arch_kexec_protect_crashkres() is introduced to do the actual
       protection.
    
    2) To allow multiple loading, once 1) was done we also need to remark
       the reserved memory to readwrite each time a system call related to
       kdump is made.  The weak arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres() is introduced
       to do the actual protection.
    
    The architecture can make its specific implementation by overriding
    arch_kexec_protect_crashkres() and arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres().
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarXunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
    Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
    Cc: Minfei Huang <mhuang@redhat.com>
    Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
    Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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