kernel/linux.git/include/linux/kexec.h, branch v6.6.132

crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()

2023-08-24T23:25:14+00:00

The hotplug support for kexec_load() requires changes to the userspace kexec-tools and a little extra help from the kernel. Given a kdump capture kernel loaded via kexec_load(), and a subsequent hotplug event, the crash hotplug handler finds the elfcorehdr and rewrites it to reflect the hotplug change. That is the desired outcome, however, at kernel panic time, the purgatory integrity check fails (because the elfcorehdr changed), and the capture kernel does not boot and no vmcore is generated. Therefore, the userspace kexec-tools/kexec must indicate to the kernel that the elfcorehdr can be modified (because the kexec excluded the elfcorehdr from the digest, and sized the elfcorehdr memory buffer appropriately). To facilitate hotplug support with kexec_load(): - a new kexec flag KEXEC_UPATE_ELFCOREHDR indicates that it is safe for the kernel to modify the kexec_load()'d elfcorehdr - the /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size node communicates the preferred size of the elfcorehdr memory buffer - The sysfs crash_hotplug nodes (ie. /sys/devices/system/[cpu|memory]/crash_hotplug) dynamically take into account kexec_file_load() vs kexec_load() and KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR. This is critical so that the udev rule processing of crash_hotplug is all that is needed to determine if the userspace unload-then-load of the kdump image is to be skipped, or not. The proposed udev rule change looks like: # The kernel updates the crash elfcorehdr for CPU and memory changes SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" The table below indicates the behavior of kexec_load()'d kdump image updates (with the new udev crash_hotplug rule in place): Kernel |Kexec -------+-----+---- Old |Old |New | a | a -------+-----+---- New | a | b -------+-----+---- where kexec 'old' and 'new' delineate kexec-tools has the needed modifications for the crash hotplug feature, and kernel 'old' and 'new' delineate the kernel supports this crash hotplug feature. Behavior 'a' indicates the unload-then-reload of the entire kdump image. For the kexec 'old' column, the unload-then-reload occurs due to the missing flag KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR. An 'old' kernel (with 'new' kexec) does not present the crash_hotplug sysfs node, which leads to the unload-then-reload of the kdump image. Behavior 'b' indicates the desired optimized behavior of the kernel directly modifying the elfcorehdr and avoiding the unload-then-reload of the kdump image. If the udev rule is not updated with crash_hotplug node check, then no matter any combination of kernel or kexec is new or old, the kdump image continues to be unload-then-reload on hotplug changes. To fully support crash hotplug feature, there needs to be a rollout of kernel, kexec-tools and udev rule changes. However, the order of the rollout of these pieces does not matter; kexec_load()'d kdump images still function for hotplug as-is. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-7-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder Suggested-by: Hari Bathini Acked-by: Hari Bathini Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Akhil Raj Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Young Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Mimi Zohar Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Sourabh Jain Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Valentin Schneider Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes

2023-08-24T23:25:14+00:00

Introduce the crash_hotplug attribute for memory and CPUs for use by userspace. These attributes directly facilitate the udev rule for managing userspace re-loading of the crash kernel upon hot un/plug changes. For memory, expose the crash_hotplug attribute to the /sys/devices/system/memory directory. For example: # udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/devices/system/memory/memory81 looking at device '/devices/system/memory/memory81': KERNEL=="memory81" SUBSYSTEM=="memory" DRIVER=="" ATTR{online}=="1" ATTR{phys_device}=="0" ATTR{phys_index}=="00000051" ATTR{removable}=="1" ATTR{state}=="online" ATTR{valid_zones}=="Movable" looking at parent device '/devices/system/memory': KERNELS=="memory" SUBSYSTEMS=="" DRIVERS=="" ATTRS{auto_online_blocks}=="offline" ATTRS{block_size_bytes}=="8000000" ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1" For CPUs, expose the crash_hotplug attribute to the /sys/devices/system/cpu directory. For example: # udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0 looking at device '/devices/system/cpu/cpu0': KERNEL=="cpu0" SUBSYSTEM=="cpu" DRIVER=="processor" ATTR{crash_notes}=="277c38600" ATTR{crash_notes_size}=="368" ATTR{online}=="1" looking at parent device '/devices/system/cpu': KERNELS=="cpu" SUBSYSTEMS=="" DRIVERS=="" ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1" ATTRS{isolated}=="" ATTRS{kernel_max}=="8191" ATTRS{nohz_full}==" (null)" ATTRS{offline}=="4-7" ATTRS{online}=="0-3" ATTRS{possible}=="0-7" ATTRS{present}=="0-3" With these sysfs attributes in place, it is possible to efficiently instruct the udev rule to skip crash kernel reloading for kernels configured with crash hotplug support. For example, the following is the proposed udev rule change for RHEL system 98-kexec.rules (as the first lines of the rule file): # The kernel updates the crash elfcorehdr for CPU and memory changes SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" When examined in the context of 98-kexec.rules, the above rules test if crash_hotplug is set, and if so, the userspace initiated unload-then-reload of the crash kernel is skipped. CPU and memory checks are separated in accordance with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU and CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG kernel config options. If an architecture supports, for example, memory hotplug but not CPU hotplug, then the /sys/devices/system/memory/crash_hotplug attribute file is present, but the /sys/devices/system/cpu/crash_hotplug attribute file will NOT be present. Thus the udev rule skips userspace processing of memory hot un/plug events, but the udev rule will evaluate false for CPU events, thus allowing userspace to process CPU hot un/plug events (ie the unload-then-reload of the kdump capture kernel). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-5-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain Acked-by: Hari Bathini Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Akhil Raj Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Young Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Mimi Zohar Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Valentin Schneider Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support

2023-08-24T23:25:13+00:00

To support crash hotplug, a mechanism is needed to update the crash elfcorehdr upon CPU or memory changes (eg. hot un/plug or off/ onlining). The crash elfcorehdr describes the CPUs and memory to be written into the vmcore. To track CPU changes, callbacks are registered with the cpuhp mechanism via cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN). The crash hotplug elfcorehdr update has no explicit ordering requirement (relative to other cpuhp states), so meets the criteria for utilizing CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN. CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN is a dynamic state and avoids the need to introduce a new state for crash hotplug. Also, CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN is the last state in the PREPARE group, just prior to the STARTING group, which is very close to the CPU starting up in a plug/online situation, or stopping in a unplug/ offline situation. This minimizes the window of time during an actual plug/online or unplug/offline situation in which the elfcorehdr would be inaccurate. Note that for a CPU being unplugged or offlined, the CPU will still be present in the list of CPUs generated by crash_prepare_elf64_headers(). However, there is no need to explicitly omit the CPU, see justification in 'crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()'. To track memory changes, a notifier is registered to capture the memblock MEM_ONLINE and MEM_OFFLINE events via register_memory_notifier(). The CPU callbacks and memory notifiers invoke crash_handle_hotplug_event() which performs needed tasks and then dispatches the event to the architecture specific arch_crash_handle_hotplug_event() to update the elfcorehdr with the current state of CPUs and memory. During the process, the kexec_lock is held. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-3-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain Acked-by: Hari Bathini Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Akhil Raj Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Young Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Mimi Zohar Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Valentin Schneider Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug

2023-08-24T23:25:13+00:00

Patch series "crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory hot un/plug", v28. Once the kdump service is loaded, if changes to CPUs or memory occur, either by hot un/plug or off/onlining, the crash elfcorehdr must also be updated. The elfcorehdr describes to kdump the CPUs and memory in the system, and any inaccuracies can result in a vmcore with missing CPU context or memory regions. The current solution utilizes udev to initiate an unload-then-reload of the kdump image (eg. kernel, initrd, boot_params, purgatory and elfcorehdr) by the userspace kexec utility. In the original post I outlined the significant performance problems related to offloading this activity to userspace. This patchset introduces a generic crash handler that registers with the CPU and memory notifiers. Upon CPU or memory changes, from either hot un/plug or off/onlining, this generic handler is invoked and performs important housekeeping, for example obtaining the appropriate lock, and then invokes an architecture specific handler to do the appropriate elfcorehdr update. Note the description in patch 'crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()' and 'x86/crash: optimize CPU changes' that enables further optimizations related to CPU plug/unplug/online/offline performance of elfcorehdr updates. In the case of x86_64, the arch specific handler generates a new elfcorehdr, and overwrites the old one in memory; thus no involvement with userspace needed. To realize the benefits/test this patchset, one must make a couple of minor changes to userspace: - Prevent udev from updating kdump crash kernel on hot un/plug changes. Add the following as the first lines to the RHEL udev rule file /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/98-kexec.rules: # The kernel updates the crash elfcorehdr for CPU and memory changes SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" With this changeset applied, the two rules evaluate to false for CPU and memory change events and thus skip the userspace unload-then-reload of kdump. - Change to the kexec_file_load for loading the kdump kernel: Eg. on RHEL: in /usr/bin/kdumpctl, change to: standard_kexec_args="-p -d -s" which adds the -s to select kexec_file_load() syscall. This kernel patchset also supports kexec_load() with a modified kexec userspace utility. A working changeset to the kexec userspace utility is posted to the kexec-tools mailing list here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2023-May/027049.html To use the kexec-tools patch, apply, build and install kexec-tools, then change the kdumpctl's standard_kexec_args to replace the -s with --hotplug. The removal of -s reverts to the kexec_load syscall and the addition of --hotplug invokes the changes put forth in the kexec-tools patch. This patch (of 8): The crash hotplug support leans on the work for the kexec_file_load() syscall. To also support the kexec_load() syscall, a few bits of code need to be move outside of CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE. As such, these bits are moved out of kexec_file.c and into a common location crash_core.c. In addition, struct crash_mem and crash_notes were moved to new locales so that PROC_KCORE, which sets CRASH_CORE alone, builds correctly. No functionality change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-1-eric.devolder@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-2-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain Acked-by: Hari Bathini Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Akhil Raj Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Young Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Mimi Zohar Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Valentin Schneider Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kexec: remove unnecessary arch_kexec_kernel_image_load()

2023-04-08T20:45:38+00:00

arch_kexec_kernel_image_load() only calls kexec_image_load_default(), and there are no arch-specific implementations. Remove the unnecessary arch_kexec_kernel_image_load() and make kexec_image_load_default() static. No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230307224416.907040-3-helgaas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

x86/kexec: remove unnecessary arch_kexec_kernel_image_load()

2023-04-08T20:45:38+00:00

Patch series "kexec: Remove unnecessary arch hook", v2. There are no arch-specific things in arch_kexec_kernel_image_load(), so remove it and just use the generic version. This patch (of 2): The x86 implementation of arch_kexec_kernel_image_load() is functionally identical to the generic arch_kexec_kernel_image_load(): arch_kexec_kernel_image_load # x86 if (!image->fops || !image->fops->load) return ERR_PTR(-ENOEXEC); return image->fops->load(image, image->kernel_buf, ...) arch_kexec_kernel_image_load # generic kexec_image_load_default if (!image->fops || !image->fops->load) return ERR_PTR(-ENOEXEC); return image->fops->load(image, image->kernel_buf, ...) Remove the x86-specific version and use the generic arch_kexec_kernel_image_load(). No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230307224416.907040-1-helgaas@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230307224416.907040-2-helgaas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kexec: introduce sysctl parameters kexec_load_limit_*

2023-02-03T06:50:05+00:00

kexec allows replacing the current kernel with a different one. This is usually a source of concerns for sysadmins that want to harden a system. Linux already provides a way to disable loading new kexec kernel via kexec_load_disabled, but that control is very coard, it is all or nothing and does not make distinction between a panic kexec and a normal kexec. This patch introduces new sysctl parameters, with finer tuning to specify how many times a kexec kernel can be loaded. The sysadmin can set different limits for kexec panic and kexec reboot kernels. The value can be modified at runtime via sysctl, but only with a stricter value. With these new parameters on place, a system with loadpin and verity enabled, using the following kernel parameters: sysctl.kexec_load_limit_reboot=0 sysct.kexec_load_limit_panic=1 can have a good warranty that if initrd tries to load a panic kernel, a malitious user will have small chances to replace that kernel with a different one, even if they can trigger timeouts on the disk where the panic kernel lives. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v6-3-6a8531a09b9a@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Guilherme G. Piccoli # Steam Deck Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Philipp Rudo Cc: Ross Zwisler Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kexec: factor out kexec_load_permitted

2023-02-03T06:50:04+00:00

Both syscalls (kexec and kexec_file) do the same check, let's factor it out. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v6-2-6a8531a09b9a@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Guilherme G. Piccoli Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Philipp Rudo Cc: Ross Zwisler Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kexec: replace crash_mem_range with range

2022-11-18T21:55:07+00:00

We already have struct range, so just use it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220929042936.22012-4-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Li Chen Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Chen Lifu Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" Cc: Jianglei Nie Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Russell King Cc: ye xingchen Cc: Zeal Robot Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kexec: turn all kexec_mutex acquisitions into trylocks

2022-09-12T04:55:06+00:00

Patch series "kexec, panic: Making crash_kexec() NMI safe", v4. This patch (of 2): Most acquistions of kexec_mutex are done via mutex_trylock() - those were a direct "translation" from: 8c5a1cf0ad3a ("kexec: use a mutex for locking rather than xchg()") there have however been two additions since then that use mutex_lock(): crash_get_memory_size() and crash_shrink_memory(). A later commit will replace said mutex with an atomic variable, and locking operations will become atomic_cmpxchg(). Rather than having those mutex_lock() become while (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock, 0, 1)), turn them into trylocks that can return -EBUSY on acquisition failure. This does halve the printable size of the crash kernel, but that's still neighbouring 2G for 32bit kernels which should be ample enough. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220630223258.4144112-1-vschneid@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220630223258.4144112-2-vschneid@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton