[PATCH v8 0/7] Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys

Coiby Xu coxu at redhat.com
Thu Mar 20 23:54:35 PDT 2025


On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 09:36:48AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
>Hi Andrew,
>
>On 02/11/25 at 06:25pm, Baoquan He wrote:
>> On 02/07/25 at 04:08pm, 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:
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > This patch set only supports x86. There will be patches to support other
>> > architectures once this patch set gets merged.
>
>Could you pick this patchset into your tree since no conern from other
>reviewers?

Thanks to Baoquan for endorsing the patch set!

Hi Andrew and Dave,

If there is anything further I need to do, any suggestion or feedback
will be appreciated!

Or if it's more appropriate for Dave to take the patch set to the x86 tree,
it couldn't be better.

>
>Thanks
>Baoquan
>
>>
>> This v8 looks good to me, thanks for the great effort, Coiby.
>>
>> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
>>
>

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Best regards,
Coiby




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