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On x86 kernels configured with CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y and CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=n, the vmcoreinfo note in /proc/kcore is incomplete. Specifically, it is missing arch-specific information like the KASLR offset and whether 5-level page tables are enabled. This breaks applications like drgn [1] and crash [2], which need this information for live debugging via /proc/kcore. This happens because: 1. CONFIG_PROC_KCORE selects CONFIG_CRASH_CORE. 2. kernel/crash_core.c (compiled if CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y) calls arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() to get the arch-specific parts of vmcoreinfo. If it is not defined, then it uses a no-op fallback. 3. x86 defines arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() in arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_*.c, which is only compiled if CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y. Therefore, an x86 kernel with CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y and CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=n uses the no-op fallback and gets incomplete vmcoreinfo data. This isn't relevant to kdump, which requires CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. It only affects applications which read vmcoreinfo at runtime, like the ones mentioned above. Fix it by moving arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() into two new arch/x86/kernel/crash_core_*.c files, which are gated behind CONFIG_CRASH_CORE. 1:73dd7def12/libdrgn/program.c (L385)2:60a42d7092Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> Cc: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0589961254102cca23e3618b96541b89f2b249e2.1576858905.git.osandov@fb.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.