Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] makedumpfile: makedumpfile enhancement to filter out kernel data from vmcore

2011-05-25 Thread Dave Anderson
- Original Message - > > > The data to be erased is poisoned with character 'X' (58 in Hex). > > > > The last two patches 7/8 and 8/8 introduces eraseinfo section into > > filtered compressed kdump and ELF kdump file. The compressed kdump file > > now carries additional fields namely offs

Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] makedumpfile: makedumpfile enhancement to filter out kernel data from vmcore

2011-05-25 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:41:55AM +0200, Reinhard Buendgen wrote: > Hi, > > to answer Vivek questions first: Eventually we want to be able to erase > all data that a customer may consider sensitive to her privacy. In > addition to encryption key that may be the contents (i.e. payload within) >

Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] makedumpfile: makedumpfile enhancement to filter out kernel data from vmcore

2011-05-25 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:14:07PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: > On 2011-05-24 16:35:42 Tue, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:29:06AM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Please find the version 2 of makedumpfile enhancement patchset that > > > introd

[PATCH] makedumpfile: s390x: Fix dump refiltering for s390x.

2011-05-25 Thread Mahesh J Salgaonkar
From: Mahesh Salgaonkar On s390x, dump refiltering fails in get_machdep_info_s390x() function while reading vmlist kernel symbol data. It fails in vaddr_to_paddr_s390x() function while resolving vmlist kernel symbol address. Since the vmlist kernel symbol address is not a vmalloc address, the fun

Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] makedumpfile: makedumpfile enhancement to filter out kernel data from vmcore

2011-05-25 Thread Mahesh J Salgaonkar
On 2011-05-24 16:35:42 Tue, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:29:06AM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Please find the version 2 of makedumpfile enhancement patchset that > > introduces > > a data filtering feature which enables makedumpfile to filter out desire