No description
  • C 96.8%
  • Assembly 0.9%
  • Rust 0.7%
  • Shell 0.6%
  • Python 0.5%
  • Other 0.3%
Find a file
Pasha Tatashin d7255959b6 kho: allow kexec load before KHO finalization
Currently, kho_fill_kimage() checks kho_out.finalized and returns early if
KHO is not yet finalized.  This enforces a strict ordering where userspace
must finalize KHO *before* loading the kexec image.

This is restrictive, as standard workflows often involve loading the
target kernel early in the lifecycle and finalizing the state (FDT) only
immediately before the reboot.

Since the KHO FDT resides at a physical address allocated during boot
(kho_init), its location is stable.  We can attach this stable address to
the kimage regardless of whether the content has been finalized yet.

Relax the check to only require kho_enable, allowing kexec_file_load to
proceed at any time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114190002.3311679-12-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
History 2025-11-27 14:24:36 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
block block-6.18-20251031 2025-10-31 12:57:19 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2025-10-10 08:56:16 -07:00
Documentation liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
drivers lib/base64: add support for multiple variants 2025-11-20 14:03:43 -08:00
fs Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
include kho: introduce high-level memory allocation API 2025-11-27 14:24:34 -08:00
init liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
io_uring io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation 2025-11-07 17:17:13 -07:00
ipc ipc: create_ipc_ns: drop mqueue mount on sysctl setup failure 2025-11-12 10:00:15 -08:00
kernel kho: allow kexec load before KHO finalization 2025-11-27 14:24:36 -08:00
lib test_kho: unpreserve memory in case of error 2025-11-27 14:24:32 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm memblock: unpreserve memory in case of error 2025-11-27 14:24:32 -08:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth and wireless. 2025-11-06 08:52:30 -08:00
rust rbtree: inline rb_last() 2025-11-27 14:24:30 -08:00
samples selftests: complete kselftest include centralization 2025-11-27 14:24:31 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
security integrity-v6.18 2025-10-05 10:48:33 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.18 2025-10-30 13:08:08 +01:00
tools kho: make debugfs interface optional 2025-11-27 14:24:31 -08:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM x86 fixes for 6.18: 2025-10-18 10:25:43 +02:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS CREDITS: update Martin's information 2025-11-12 10:00:14 -08:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: update KHO maintainers 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18-rc5 2025-11-09 15:10:19 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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 reStructuredText 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.