[PATCH 1/1] kexec_file: fix elfcorehdr digest exclusion when CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG=y
Baoquan He
bhe at redhat.com
Fri Aug 16 00:12:38 PDT 2024
Hi Andrew,
On 08/05/24 at 05:07pm, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik at suse.com>
>
> Fix the condition to exclude the elfcorehdr segment from the SHA digest
> calculation.
>
> The j iterator is an index into the output sha_regions[] array, not into
> the input image->segment[] array. Once it reaches image->elfcorehdr_index,
> all subsequent segments are excluded. Besides, if the purgatory segment
> precedes the elfcorehdr segment, the elfcorehdr may be wrongly included in
> the calculation.
Ping.
This is a good fix, could you pick this one into your tree?
Thanks
Baoquan
>
> Fixes: f7cc804a9fd4 ("kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest")
> Cc: stable at kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik at suse.com>
> ---
> kernel/kexec_file.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> index 3d64290d24c9..3eedb8c226ad 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> @@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ static int kexec_calculate_store_digests(struct kimage *image)
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG
> /* Exclude elfcorehdr segment to allow future changes via hotplug */
> - if (j == image->elfcorehdr_index)
> + if (i == image->elfcorehdr_index)
> continue;
> #endif
>
> --
> 2.45.2
>
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