Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Jun 2019 11:10:30 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3 v11] add reserved e820 ranges to the kdump kernel e820 table |
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On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 11:54:51AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > Is it a UEFI box?
Yes.
> If it's uefi machine, it should relate to below issue. Because kexec > always fails to randomly choose a new position for kernel.
The kernel succeeds in selecting a position for the kernel - the kexec kernel doesn't load when a panic happens. Rather, the box panics and nothing more.
> The current kexec code fills boot_params->efi_info->efi_loader_signature, > but doesn't contruct efi_memmap table. The kexec/kdump kernel will always > fail to find available slot for KASLR in process_efi_entries.
Kernel has
# CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is not set
so no KASLR.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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