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sh: disallow kexec virtual entry

Message ID 20090319100429.9817.21412.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se (mailing list archive)
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Magnus Damm March 19, 2009, 10:04 a.m. UTC 
From: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>

Older versions of kexec-tools has a zImage loader that
passes a virtual address as entry point. The elf loader
otoh it passes a physical address as entry point, and
pages are always passed as physical addresses as well.

Only allow physical addresses from now on.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
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 arch/sh/kernel/machine_kexec.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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Comments

Paul Mundt March 20, 2009, 10:01 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:04:29PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> Older versions of kexec-tools has a zImage loader that
> passes a virtual address as entry point. The elf loader
> otoh it passes a physical address as entry point, and
> pages are always passed as physical addresses as well.
> 
> Only allow physical addresses from now on.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:05:58PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> This patch modifies the SuperH RTC driver to only
> enable carry interrupts when needed. So by default
> no interrupts are enabled with this patch. Without
> this patch a suspending system will most likely
> wake up by the carry interrupt regardless if the
> alarm interrupt has been enabled or not.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:10:44PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> This patch modifies invalid time handling in the
> SuperH RTC driver. Instead of zeroing the returned
> value at read-out time we just return an error code
> and reset invalid values during probe.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:14:41PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> Flag that the SuperH RTC supports wakeup.

Applied, thanks.
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Patch

--- 0001/arch/sh/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ work/arch/sh/kernel/machine_kexec.c	2009-03-18 20:25:56.000000000 +0900
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@  void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_re
  */
 int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
 {
+	/* older versions of kexec-tools are passing
+	 * the zImage entry point as a virtual address.
+	 */
+	if (image->start != PHYSADDR(image->start))
+		return -EINVAL; /* upgrade your kexec-tools */
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -125,7 +131,8 @@  void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 
 	/* now call it */
 	rnk = (relocate_new_kernel_t) reboot_code_buffer;
-	(*rnk)(page_list, reboot_code_buffer, image->start);
+	(*rnk)(page_list, reboot_code_buffer,
+	       (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(image->start));
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
 	asm volatile("ldc %0, vbr" : : "r" (&vbr_base) : "memory");