From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1T1tWw-0005RL-1l for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:26:07 +0000 Received: from /spool/local by e1.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:26:02 -0400 Received: from d01relay06.pok.ibm.com (d01relay06.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.116]) by d01dlp03.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77EECC90026 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:25:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay06.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q7G6Pxkm29294770 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:25:59 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q7G6PwGB001891 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:25:59 -0400 Message-ID: <502C9273.30504@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:55:55 +0530 From: Aravinda Prasad MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] makedumpfile security key filtering with eppic References: <20120606095709.12534.63967.stgit@aravinda> <20120611174432.114cdead.kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20120611174432.114cdead.kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Atsushi Kumagai Cc: mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tachibana@mxm.nes.nec.co.jp, kexec@lists.infradead.org, ananth@in.ibm.com, buendgen@de.ibm.com On Monday 11 June 2012 02:14 PM, Atsushi Kumagai wrote: > Hello Aravinda, > > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:34:23 +0530 > Aravinda Prasad wrote: > >> makedumpfile security key filtering enhancement - Add Eppic language >> support (formerly known as SIAL) to specify rules to scrub data in a >> dumpfile. Eppic was previously part of crash source code repository. >> >> The following series of patches enhance the makedumpfile to provide >> a more powerful way to specify rules and commands to traverse and >> erase complex data structures in a dump file by integrating Embeddable >> Pre-Processor and Interpreter for C (eppic). >> >> Eppic is an interpreter that facilitates access to the symbol and type >> information stored in an executable image or a dump file. Eppic defines >> a language semantic which is similar to C. Eppic macros can be used to >> specify rules/commands to erase data in an image file. makedumpfile >> will interpret the rules/commands provided by eppic macros with the >> help of eppic library and will suitably erase the required data in a >> dump file. Eppic provides a lot of language constructs like conditional >> statements, logical and arithmetic operators, nested loops, functions, >> etc., to traverse nested lists and trees and conditionally erase data >> in the dump file, enabling users to literally erase any data in the >> dump file which is accessible through global symbols. >> >> The series of patches integrates eppic with makdumpfile. These patches >> require eppic library libeppic.a and eppic_api.h header file. The >> libeppic.a library can be built from the eppic source code available >> at the following URL: >> >> http://code.google.com/p/eppic/ > > Thank you for your work. > > I'm afraid that I'm working on the cyclic processing feature, > so I will start to review your patches in the middle of July or later. Hello Kumagai-san, Did you get a chance to review the makedumpfile security key enhancement patches? - Aravinda > > > Thanks > Atsushi Kumagai > >> TODO: >> >> - Currently, works only for symbols in vmlinux, extend it to module >> symbols >> - Functionality support: >> - Implement the following callback functions. >> - apialignment >> - apigetenum >> - apigetdefs >> - Other functionalities specified in the code with TODO tag >> - Support specifying eppic macros in makedumpfile.conf file >> - Update erase info >> >> --- >> >> Aravinda Prasad (7): >> Initialize and setup eppic >> makedumpfile and eppic interface layer >> Eppic call back functions to query a dump image >> Implement apigetctype call back function >> Implement apimember and apigetrtype call back functions >> Extend eppic built-in functions to include memset function >> Support fully typed symbol access mode >> >> >> Makefile | 6 - >> dwarf_info.c | 338 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> dwarf_info.h | 18 ++ >> erase_info.c | 72 ++++++++- >> erase_info.h | 3 >> extension_eppic.c | 446 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> extension_eppic.h | 78 +++++++++ >> makedumpfile.c | 7 + >> makedumpfile.h | 6 + >> 9 files changed, 967 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 extension_eppic.c >> create mode 100644 extension_eppic.h >> >> -- >> Aravinda Prasad > -- Regards, Aravinda _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec