* [merged mm-nonmm-stable] arm64ppc64le-kdump-pass-dm-crypt-keys-to-kdump-kernel.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-04-03 6:42 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-04-03 6:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, will, tstaudt, sourabhjain, ryncsn, robh, krzk,
kernelfans, dyoung, chleroy, bhe, arnaud.lefebvre, coxu, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
arm64ppc64le-kdump-pass-dm-crypt-keys-to-kdump-kernel.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Subject: arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:03:46 +0800
CONFIG_CRASH_DM_CRYPT has been introduced to support LUKS-encrypted
device dump target by addressing two challenges [1],
- Kdump kernel may not be able to decrypt the LUKS partition. For some
machines, a system administrator may not have a chance to enter the
password to decrypt the device in kdump initramfs after the 1st kernel
crashes
- LUKS2 by default use the memory-hard Argon2 key derivation function
which is quite memory-consuming compared to the limited memory reserved
for kdump.
To also enable this feature for ARM64 and PowerPC, the missing piece is to
let the kdump kernel know where to find the dm-crypt keys which are
randomly stored in memory reserved for kdump. Introduce a new device tree
property dmcryptkeys [2] as similar to elfcorehdr to pass the memory
address of the stored info of dm-crypt keys to the kdump kernel. Since
this property is only needed by the kdump kernel, it won't be exposed to
userspace.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225060347.718905-4-coxu@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250502011246.99238-1-coxu@redhat.com/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/pull/181 [2]
Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaud Lefebvre <arnaud.lefebvre@clever-cloud.com>
Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Staudt <tstaudt@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 4 ++++
arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c | 4 ++++
drivers/of/fdt.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/of/kexec.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c~arm64ppc64le-kdump-pass-dm-crypt-keys-to-kdump-kernel
+++ a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -134,6 +134,10 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *i
kexec_dprintk("Loaded elf core header at 0x%lx bufsz=0x%lx memsz=0x%lx\n",
image->elf_load_addr, kbuf.bufsz, kbuf.memsz);
+
+ ret = crash_load_dm_crypt_keys(image);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_err;
}
#endif
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c~arm64ppc64le-kdump-pass-dm-crypt-keys-to-kdump-kernel
+++ a/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ static void *elf64_load(struct kimage *i
goto out;
}
+ ret = crash_load_dm_crypt_keys(image);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
/* Setup cmdline for kdump kernel case */
modified_cmdline = setup_kdump_cmdline(image, cmdline,
cmdline_len);
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c~arm64ppc64le-kdump-pass-dm-crypt-keys-to-kdump-kernel
+++ a/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -866,6 +866,26 @@ static void __init early_init_dt_check_f
elfcorehdr_addr, elfcorehdr_size);
}
+static void __init early_init_dt_check_for_dmcryptkeys(unsigned long node)
+{
+ const char *prop_name = "linux,dmcryptkeys";
+ const __be32 *prop;
+
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CRASH_DM_CRYPT))
+ return;
+
+ pr_debug("Looking for dmcryptkeys property... ");
+
+ prop = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, prop_name, NULL);
+ if (!prop)
+ return;
+
+ dm_crypt_keys_addr = dt_mem_next_cell(dt_root_addr_cells, &prop);
+
+ /* Property only accessible to crash dump kernel */
+ fdt_delprop(initial_boot_params, node, prop_name);
+}
+
static unsigned long chosen_node_offset = -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND;
/*
@@ -1097,6 +1117,7 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_chosen(cha
early_init_dt_check_for_initrd(node);
early_init_dt_check_for_elfcorehdr(node);
+ early_init_dt_check_for_dmcryptkeys(node);
rng_seed = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "rng-seed", &l);
if (rng_seed && l > 0) {
--- a/drivers/of/kexec.c~arm64ppc64le-kdump-pass-dm-crypt-keys-to-kdump-kernel
+++ a/drivers/of/kexec.c
@@ -423,6 +423,25 @@ void *of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt(const
if (ret)
goto out;
+ if (image->dm_crypt_keys_addr != 0) {
+ ret = fdt_appendprop_addrrange(fdt, 0, chosen_node,
+ "linux,dmcryptkeys",
+ image->dm_crypt_keys_addr,
+ image->dm_crypt_keys_sz);
+
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
+ /*
+ * Avoid dmcryptkeys from being stomped on in kdump kernel by
+ * setting up memory reserve map.
+ */
+ ret = fdt_add_mem_rsv(fdt, image->dm_crypt_keys_addr,
+ image->dm_crypt_keys_sz);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+ }
+
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
/* add linux,usable-memory-range */
ret = fdt_appendprop_addrrange(fdt, 0, chosen_node,
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from coxu@redhat.com are
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