x86/kexec: prepend elfcorehdr instead of appending it to the crash-kernel command-line.

Any parameter passed after '--' in the kernel command-line will not be
parsed by the kernel at all, instead it will be passed directly to init
process.

Currently the kernel appends elfcorehdr=<paddr> to the cmdline passed from
kexec load, and if this command-line is used to pass parameters to init
process this means that 'elfcorehdr' will not be parsed as a kernel
parameter at all which will be a problem for vmcore subsystem since it
will know nothing about the location of the ELF structure!

Prepending 'elfcorehdr' instead of appending it fixes this problem since
it ensures that it always comes before '--' and so it's always parsed as a
kernel command-line parameter.

Even with this patch things can still go wrong if 'CONFIG_CMDLINE' was
also used to embedd a command-line to the crash dump kernel and this
command-line contains '--' since the current behavior of the kernel is to
actually append the boot loader command-line to the embedded command-line.

Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
index ca05f86481aace..ca83f7ac388bec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
@@ -72,15 +72,16 @@ static int setup_cmdline(struct kimage *image, struct boot_params *params,
 			 unsigned long cmdline_len)
 {
 	char *cmdline_ptr = ((char *)params) + cmdline_offset;
-	unsigned long cmdline_ptr_phys, len;
+	unsigned long cmdline_ptr_phys, len = 0;
 	uint32_t cmdline_low_32, cmdline_ext_32;
 
-	memcpy(cmdline_ptr, cmdline, cmdline_len);
 	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
-		len = sprintf(cmdline_ptr + cmdline_len - 1,
-			" elfcorehdr=0x%lx", image->arch.elf_load_addr);
-		cmdline_len += len;
+		len = sprintf(cmdline_ptr,
+			"elfcorehdr=0x%lx ", image->arch.elf_load_addr);
 	}
+	memcpy(cmdline_ptr + len, cmdline, cmdline_len);
+	cmdline_len += len;
+
 	cmdline_ptr[cmdline_len - 1] = '\0';
 
 	pr_debug("Final command line is: %s\n", cmdline_ptr);