From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, horms@verge.net.au,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Kdump with UEFI secure boot (Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:55:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121018195530.GA32428@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121018193831.GD18147@redhat.com>
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 03:38:31PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> I was thinking that how about supporting in kernel bootloader. That is,
> kernel acts as a boot loader. User passes the kernel, initrd and
> commandline from user space using kexec system call and kernel parses
> it and prepares appropriate memory areas ( ex. boot_params, kernel, initramfs,
> backup region, elf header region etc). At the time of kexec -e, we just
> follow th regular path and jump to second kernel.
>
> At the time of loading, kernel can verify the signature of incoming
> bzImage and reject it if signatures don't match. Matthew mentioned that
> kernel signing certificate will be available inside the running kernel,
> so verifying PE/COFF bzImage should be easy.
That all sounds fine to me.
> There is one side issue of acpi_rsdp. Because second kernel executes
> the code specified by acpi_rsdp, it is unsafe to let user specify
> that location. Matthew metioned that figure a way out to pass acpi_rsdp
> using boot params and drop it from command line.
That would just be a matter of adding it to the structure and modifying
drivers/acpi/osl.c.
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Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-18 3:10 [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting Dave Young
2012-10-18 14:56 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-10-18 19:11 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-18 19:22 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-10-18 19:38 ` [RFC] Kdump with UEFI secure boot (Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting) Vivek Goyal
2012-10-18 19:55 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-10-18 22:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-19 2:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-19 3:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-19 14:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-22 20:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-22 21:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 2:04 ` Simon Horman
2012-10-23 13:24 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-23 16:26 ` [RFC] Kdump with signed images Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 17:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-23 19:11 ` Maxim Uvarov
2012-10-23 19:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-22 21:07 ` [RFC] Kdump with UEFI secure boot (Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting) Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 13:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-23 14:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-23 15:41 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-23 16:44 ` [RFC] Kdump with signed images Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 16:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-24 17:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-24 17:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 5:43 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 5:43 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 6:44 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-25 6:44 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-25 7:01 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 7:01 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 13:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 13:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 19:06 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 19:06 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 15:39 ` [RFC] Kdump with UEFI secure boot (Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting) Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 15:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-23 16:19 ` Kdump with signed images Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 16:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-23 17:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 17:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-24 17:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-24 17:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 6:10 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 6:10 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 14:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 14:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 18:40 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 18:40 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 18:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 18:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-26 1:15 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 1:15 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 2:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-26 2:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-26 3:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-26 3:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-26 17:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-26 17:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-26 18:37 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 18:37 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 13:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 13:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 13:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 13:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:29 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 14:29 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 14:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 14:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 13:23 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 13:23 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 14:29 ` Balbir Singh
2012-11-02 14:29 ` Balbir Singh
2012-11-02 14:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 14:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-03 3:02 ` Balbir Singh
2012-11-03 3:02 ` Balbir Singh
2012-11-02 21:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-02 21:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-02 21:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-02 21:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 18:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 18:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 19:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 19:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 20:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 20:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 23:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-05 23:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-06 19:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-06 19:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-06 23:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-06 23:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-08 19:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-08 19:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-08 19:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-08 19:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-08 21:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-08 21:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-09 14:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-09 14:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-15 5:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-15 5:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-15 12:56 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-15 12:56 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-08 20:46 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-08 20:46 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 14:51 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:51 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 14:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 15:10 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-11-01 15:10 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-11-01 16:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 16:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 16:57 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-11-02 16:57 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-10-26 17:59 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 17:59 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 18:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-26 18:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-26 18:25 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 18:25 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-23 15:51 ` [RFC] Kdump with UEFI secure boot (Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting) Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 17:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-19 17:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-22 21:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-02 21:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-05 18:11 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 19:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
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