PM / hibernate: Verify the consistent of e820 memory map by md5 digest
On some platforms, there is occasional panic triggered when trying to resume from hibernation, a typical panic looks like: "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880085894000 IP: [<ffffffff810c5dc2>] load_image_lzo+0x8c2/0xe70" Investigation carried out by Lee Chun-Yi shows that this is because e820 map has been changed by BIOS across hibernation, and one of the page frames from suspend kernel is right located in restore kernel's unmapped region, so panic comes out when accessing unmapped kernel address. In order to expose this issue earlier, the md5 hash of e820 map is passed from suspend kernel to restore kernel, and the restore kernel will terminate the resume process once it finds the md5 hash are not the same. As the format of image header has been modified, the magic number should also be adjusted as kernels with the same RESTORE_MAGIC have to use the same header format and interpret all of the fields in it in the same way. If the suspend kernel is built without md5 support, and the restore kernel has md5 support, then the latter will bypass the check process. Vice versa the restore kernel will bypass the check if it does not support md5 operation. Note: 1. Without this patch applied, it is possible that BIOS has provided an inconsistent memory map, but the resume kernel is still able to restore the image anyway(e.g, E820_RAM region is the superset of the previous one), although the system might be unstable. So this patch tries to treat any inconsistent e820 as illegal. 2. Another case is, this patch replies on comparing the e820_saved, but currently the e820_save might not be strictly the same across hibernation, even if BIOS has provided consistent e820 map - In theory mptable might modify the BIOS-provided e820_saved dynamically in early_reserve_e820_mpc_new, which would allocate a buffer from E820_RAM, and marks it from E820_RAM to E820_RESERVED). This is a potential and rare case we need to deal with in OS in the future. Suggested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Suggested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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