[PATCHv7 2/5] kexec: Introduce a member kernel_fd in kexec_info
Pingfan Liu
piliu at redhat.com
Wed Aug 2 19:41:49 PDT 2023
Utilize the image load interface to export the kernel fd, which points
to the uncompressed kernel and will be passed to kexec_file_load.
The credit goes to the Dave Young, who contributes the original code.
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
To: kexec at lists.infradead.org
Cc: horms at verge.net.au
Cc: ardb at kernel.org
Cc: jeremy.linton at arm.com
---
kexec/kexec.c | 8 ++++++++
kexec/kexec.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c
index d132eb5..c3b182e 100644
--- a/kexec/kexec.c
+++ b/kexec/kexec.c
@@ -1292,6 +1292,7 @@ static int do_kexec_file_load(int fileind, int argc, char **argv,
info.kexec_flags = flags;
info.file_mode = 1;
+ info.kernel_fd = -1;
info.initrd_fd = -1;
if (!is_kexec_file_load_implemented())
@@ -1337,6 +1338,13 @@ static int do_kexec_file_load(int fileind, int argc, char **argv,
return ret;
}
+ /*
+ * image type specific load functioin detect the capsule kernel type
+ * and create another fd for file load. For example the zboot kernel.
+ */
+ if (info.kernel_fd != -1)
+ kernel_fd = info.kernel_fd;
+
/*
* If there is no initramfs, set KEXEC_FILE_NO_INITRAMFS flag so that
* kernel does not return error with negative initrd_fd.
diff --git a/kexec/kexec.h b/kexec/kexec.h
index 0d820ad..ed3b499 100644
--- a/kexec/kexec.h
+++ b/kexec/kexec.h
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ struct kexec_info {
unsigned long file_mode :1;
/* Filled by kernel image processing code */
+ int kernel_fd;
int initrd_fd;
char *command_line;
int command_line_len;
--
2.31.1
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