From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, hpa@zytor.com,
James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, vgoyal@redhat.com,
ebiederm@xmission.com, horms@verge.net.au,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, greg@kroah.com,
matt@console-pimps.org, toshi.kani@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 12/14] x86: export x86 boot_params to sysfs
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 21:04:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131213200412.GA12466@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386582147-9802-13-git-send-email-dyoung@redhat.com>
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:42:25PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> kexec-tools use boot_params for getting the 1st kernel hardware_subarch,
> the kexec kernel efi runtime support also need read the old efi_info from
> boot_params. Currently it exists in debugfs which is not a good place for
> such infomation. Per HPA, we should avoid of "sploit debugfs".
>
> In this patch /sys/kernel/boot_params are exported, also the setup_data is
> exported as a subdirectory. kexec-tools is using debugfs for hardware_subarch
> for a long time now so we're not removing it yet.
>
> Structure is like below:
>
> /sys/kernel/boot_params
> |__ data /* boot_params in binary*/
> |__ setup_data
> | |__ 0 /* the first setup_data node */
> | | |__ data /* setup_data node 0 in binary*/
> | | |__ type /* setup_data type of setup_data node 0, hex string */
> [snip]
> |__ version /* boot protocal version (in hex, "0x" prefixed)*/
>
> Changelog:
> Greg: use __ATTR_RO() and group attr.
> Matt and Boris: Documentation improvement, code indentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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Boris.
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Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-09 9:42 [PATCH v5 00/14] kexec kernel efi runtime support Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 01/14] x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap Dave Young
2013-12-09 15:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-10 2:12 ` Dave Young
2013-12-11 10:20 ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-11 11:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-12 2:06 ` Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 02/14] efi: use early_memremap and early_memunmap Dave Young
2013-12-11 10:39 ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-11 11:02 ` Leif Lindholm
2013-12-11 11:32 ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-11 15:17 ` Mark Salter
2013-12-13 15:51 ` Leif Lindholm
2013-12-16 1:50 ` Dave Young
2013-12-12 2:04 ` Dave Young
2013-12-11 17:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 03/14] efi: remove unused variables in __map_region Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 04/14] efi: add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 05/14] efi: reserve boot service fix Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 06/14] efi: cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 07/14] efi: export more efi table variable to sysfs Dave Young
2013-12-11 18:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-12 2:15 ` Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 08/14] efi: export efi runtime memory mapping " Dave Young
2013-12-11 18:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-12 2:36 ` Dave Young
2013-12-12 7:13 ` Dave Young
2013-12-12 20:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-13 7:20 ` Dave Young
2013-12-12 20:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-13 7:26 ` Dave Young
2013-12-13 12:30 ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-16 1:33 ` Dave Young
2013-12-16 3:02 ` Dave Young
2013-12-16 6:02 ` Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 09/14] efi: passing kexec necessary efi data via setup_data Dave Young
2013-12-11 12:13 ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-11 14:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-12 2:11 ` Dave Young
2013-12-12 2:10 ` Dave Young
2013-12-11 22:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-12 3:06 ` Dave Young
2013-12-12 6:25 ` Dave Young
2013-12-12 7:17 ` Dave Young
2013-12-12 21:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-13 7:27 ` Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 10/14] efi: only print saved efi runtime maps instead of all memmap ranges for kexec Dave Young
2013-12-13 16:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-16 2:00 ` Dave Young
2013-12-16 11:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-17 6:34 ` Dave Young
2013-12-17 15:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-18 2:06 ` Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 11/14] x86: add xloadflags bit for efi runtime support on kexec Dave Young
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 12/14] x86: export x86 boot_params to sysfs Dave Young
2013-12-13 20:04 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 13/14] x86: reserve setup_data ranges late after parsing memmap cmdline Dave Young
2013-12-13 20:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-09 9:42 ` [PATCH v5 14/14] x86: kdebugfs do not use __va for getting setup_data virt addr Dave Young
2013-12-10 23:25 ` [PATCH v5 00/14] kexec kernel efi runtime support Andrew Morton
2013-12-10 23:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-10 23:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-11 12:37 ` Matt Fleming
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