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David Hildenbrand 25bc5b0de9 proc/vmcore: don't fake reading zeroes on surprise vmcore_cb unregistration 
In commit cc5f2704c9 ("proc/vmcore: convert oldmem_pfn_is_ram callback
to more generic vmcore callbacks"), we added detection of surprise
vmcore_cb unregistration after the vmcore was already opened.  Once
detected, we warn the user and simulate reading zeroes from that point
on when accessing the vmcore.

The basic reason was that unexpected unregistration, for example, by
manually unbinding a driver from a device after opening the vmcore, is
not supported and could result in reading oldmem the vmcore_cb would
have actually prohibited while registered.  However, something like that
can similarly be trigger by a user that's really looking for trouble
simply by unbinding the relevant driver before opening the vmcore -- or
by disallowing loading the driver in the first place.  So it's actually
of limited help.

Currently, unregistration can only be triggered via virtio-mem when
manually unbinding the driver from the device inside the VM; there is no
way to trigger it from the hypervisor, as hypervisors don't allow for
unplugging virtio-mem devices -- ripping out system RAM from a VM
without coordination with the guest is usually not a good idea.

The important part is that unbinding the driver and unregistering the
vmcore_cb while concurrently reading the vmcore won't crash the system,
and that is handled by the rwsem.

To make the mechanism more future proof, let's remove the "read zero"
part, but leave the warning in place.  For example, we could have a
future driver (like virtio-balloon) that will contact the hypervisor to
figure out if we already populated a page for a given PFN.
Hotunplugging such a device and consequently unregistering the vmcore_cb
could be triggered from the hypervisor without harming the system even
while kdump is running.  In that case, we don't want to silently end up
with a vmcore that contains wrong data, because the user inside the VM
might be unaware of the hypervisor action and might easily miss the
warning in the log.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211111192243.22002-1-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-20 08:52:52 +02:00
arch mm: percpu: add generic pcpu_populate_pte() function 2022-01-20 08:52:52 +02:00
block block-5.16-2021-12-19 2021-12-19 12:38:53 -08:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Update to zstd-1.4.10 2021-11-13 15:32:30 -08:00
Documentation SoC; Fixes for 5.16, part 4 2022-01-08 12:56:16 -08:00
drivers mm: percpu: add generic pcpu_populate_pte() function 2022-01-20 08:52:52 +02:00
fs proc/vmcore: don't fake reading zeroes on surprise vmcore_cb unregistration 2022-01-20 08:52:52 +02:00
include mm: percpu: add generic pcpu_populate_pte() function 2022-01-20 08:52:52 +02:00
init kbuild: Fix -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5 error for GCC 5.x and 6.x 2021-11-14 18:59:49 -08:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-11-20 10:35:54 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-5.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2022-01-07 15:58:06 -08:00
lib Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2021-12-08 16:06:44 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm: percpu: add generic pcpu_populate_pte() function 2022-01-20 08:52:52 +02:00
net Two more changes: 2022-01-04 07:18:28 -08:00
samples ftrace/samples: Add missing prototypes direct functions 2022-01-05 18:34:50 -05:00
scripts recordmcount.pl: fix typo in s390 mcount regex 2021-12-24 10:20:12 +01:00
security selinux/stable-5.16 PR 20211228 2021-12-28 13:33:06 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.16-rc7 2021-12-23 09:55:58 -08:00
tools perf tools fixes for v5.16: 6th batch 2022-01-09 10:37:07 -08:00
usr initramfs: Check timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2021-10-24 13:48:40 +09:00
virt KVM: downgrade two BUG_ONs to WARN_ON_ONCE 2021-11-26 06:43:28 -05:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email address for Guo Ren 2021-12-10 17:10:55 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: update gpio-brcmstb maintainers 2022-01-03 10:53:02 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.16 2022-01-09 14:55:34 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

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.