[PATCH v4 2/5] kexec: do not special-case the -s option
Michal Suchánek
msuchanek at suse.de
Thu Mar 15 04:13:18 PDT 2018
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:38:30 +0100
Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 02:15:53PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > It is parsed separately to save a few CPU cycles when setting up
> > other options but it just complicates the code. So fold it back and
> > set up all flags both for KEXEC_LOAD and KEXEC_FILE_LOAD
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek at suse.de>
> > ---
> > kexec/kexec.c | 25 ++++---------------------
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c
> > index ab8cff7fe083..9ea102e1565a 100644
> > --- a/kexec/kexec.c
> > +++ b/kexec/kexec.c
> > @@ -1256,19 +1256,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > };
> > static const char short_options[] = KEXEC_ALL_OPT_STR;
> >
> > - /*
> > - * First check if --use-kexec-file-syscall is set. That
> > changes lot of
> > - * things
> > - */
> > - while ((opt = getopt_long(argc, argv, short_options,
> > - options, 0)) != -1) {
> > - switch(opt) {
> > - case OPT_KEXEC_FILE_SYSCALL:
> > - do_kexec_file_syscall = 1;
> > - break;
> > - }
> > - }
> > -
> > /* Reset getopt for the next pass. */
> > opterr = 1;
> > optind = 1;
> > @@ -1310,8 +1297,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > do_shutdown = 0;
> > do_sync = 0;
> > do_unload = 1;
> > - if (do_kexec_file_syscall)
> > - kexec_file_flags |=
> > KEXEC_FILE_UNLOAD;
> > + kexec_file_flags |= KEXEC_FILE_UNLOAD;
> > break;
> > case OPT_EXEC:
> > do_load = 0;
> @@ -1354,11 +1340,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>
> The existing code has the following above the context shown in the
> patch:
>
> do_load = 1;
>
>
> > do_exec = 0;
> > do_shutdown = 0;
> > do_sync = 0;
> > - if (do_kexec_file_syscall)
> > - kexec_file_flags |=
> > KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH;
> > - else
> > - kexec_flags = KEXEC_ON_CRASH;
> > - break;
> > + kexec_file_flags |= KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH;
> > + kexec_flags = KEXEC_ON_CRASH;
>
> kexec_flags is now set regardless of the value of
> do_kexec_file_syscall, which was not the case prior to this patch.
> That seems to affect the following which appears later in the
> function. Is that ok?
>
>
> if (do_load && (kexec_flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) &&
> !is_crashkernel_mem_reserved()) {
> die("Memory for crashkernel is not reserved\n"
> "Please reserve memory by passing"
> "\"crashkernel=X at Y\" parameter to kernel\n"
> "Then try to loading kdump kernel\n");
> }
Do you not need memory for kexec -s? This looks broken to start with.
>
> ...
>
> if ((result == 0) && do_load_jump_back_helper) {
And yes, this should not be allowed with -s
Thanks
Michal
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