[PATCH v6 0/7] Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Sun Nov 3 22:17:48 PST 2024


Hi Coiby,

On 10/29/24 at 01:52pm, Coiby Xu wrote:
> LUKS is the standard for Linux disk encryption, widely adopted by users,
> and in some cases, such as Confidential VMs, it is a requirement. With 
> kdump enabled, when the first kernel crashes, the system can boot into
> the kdump/crash kernel to dump the memory image (i.e., /proc/vmcore) 
> to a specified target. However, there are two challenges when dumping
> vmcore to a LUKS-encrypted device:

I am doing RHEL code rebasing to upstream kernel, will review this next
week.

Thanks
Baoquan




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