[Crash-utility] [PATCH 0/2] Generalize KASLR calculation and use it for KDUMPs

[Sergio Lopez]

Commit 45b74b89530d611b3fa95a1041e158fbb865fa84 added support for
calculating phys_base and kernel offset for KASLR-enabled kernels on
SADUMPs by using a technique developed by Takao Indoh. Originally, the
patchset included support for KDUMPs, but this was dropped in v2, as it
was deemed unnecessary due to the implementation of the vmcoreinfo
device in QEMU.

Sadly, there are many reasons for which the vmcoreinfo device may not be
present in the moment of taking the memory dump from a VM, ranging from
a Host running older QEMU/libvirt versions, to misconfigured VMs or
environments running Hypervisors that doesn't support this device.

This patchset generalizes the kaslr related functions from sadump.c
moving them to kaslr_helper.c, and makes KDUMP analysis fallback to
KASLR offset calculation if vmcoreinfo data is missing.

These changes have been successfully tested with a 3.10.0-830.el7.x86_64
under the following conditions:

 - kdump with KASLR and vmcoreinfo

 - kdump with KASLR but no vmcoreinfo

 - kdump without KASLR ("nokaslr" kernel command line option)

It was also tested that a "crash" patched with these changes still
builds and runs (live and kdump debugging) on an aarch64 machine.

Sergio Lopez (2):
  Move kaslr related functions from sadump.c to kaslr_helper.c
  kdump: if vmcoreinfo is missing, try to infer kaslr offset

 Makefile       |   7 +-
 defs.h         |  15 ++
 kaslr_helper.c | 466 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 netdump.c      |  73 +++++++++
 netdump.h      |   1 +
 sadump.c       | 487 +++++----------------------------------------------------
 symbols.c      |  29 ++--
 x86_64.c       |  14 +-
 8 files changed, 629 insertions(+), 463 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 kaslr_helper.c

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