[Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash-7.2.9 is available
HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁)
k-hagio-ab at nec.com
Fri Nov 20 00:07:05 UTC 2020
Download from: https://crash-utility.github.io/
or
https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/releases
The github master branch serves as a development branch that will contain
all patches that are queued for the next release:
$ git clone git://github.com/crash-utility/crash.git
Changelog:
- Fix for an ARM64 gcc-10 compilation error. Without the patch, the
build of the embedded gdb module fails with an error message that
indicates "multiple definition of 'tdesc_aarch64'".
(anderson at redhat.com)
- Fix for the "log" command. Without the patch, the command's output
may be truncated, ending with the error message "log: invalid log_buf
entry encountered".
(chenqiwu at xiaomi.com)
- Fix to allow the translation of ARM64 FIXMAP addresses located in
the virtual memory region between the end of the vmalloc region and
the beginning of the vmemmap region. Without the patch, reads of
virtual addresses within that region are not recognized properly
and will fail.
(zhaoqianli at xiaomi.com)
- Introduction of a new "extend -s" option, which shows all available
shared object extension modules that are located in the directories
that are part of the normal search path that is used when a shared
object is loaded without a fully-qualified pathname.
(w at laoqinren.net)
- Fix for the "bpf -m|-M" options on Linux 5.3 and later kernels that
contain commit 3539b96e041c06e4317082816d90ec09160aeb11, titled
"bpf: group memory related fields in struct bpf_map_memory". Without
the patch, the options prints "(unknown)" for MEMLOCK and UID.
(k-hagio-ab at nec.com)
- Enhancement to the "bpf -p|-P" options to display the eBPF program
name string.
(k-hagio-ab at nec.com)
- Fix for reading compressed kdump dumpfiles from systems with physical
memory located at extraordinarily high addresses. In a system with
a physical address range from 0x602770ecf000 to 0x6027ffffffff, the
crash utility fails during session initialization due to an integer
overflow, ending with the error message "crash: vmlinux and vmcore
do not match!".
(chenjialong at huawei.com)
- Enhancement of the "struct -r" option to support the raw memory
display of a single data structure member. Without the patch, the
option only supported the raw display of a complete data structure.
(asmadeus at codewreck.org)
- Modify the display behavior of the "struct -r" option so as to scale
the minimum display size from the size of a per-architecture long
(32-bits or 64-bits) down to 8-bits, 16-bits or 32-bits when the
requested size is equal to one of the smaller sizes.
(asmadeus at codewreck.org)
- Introduce a new ARM64 "--machdep vabits_actual=<value>" command
line option for Linux 5.4 and later dumpfiles, which require the
kernel's dynamically-determined "vabits_actual" value for virtual
address translation. Without the patch, the crash session fails
during initialization with the error message "crash: cannot determine
VA_BITS_ACTUAL". This option will become unnecessary when the
proposed TCR_EL1.T1SZ vmcoreinfo entry is incorporated into the
kernel.
(anderson at redhat.com)
- Fix for "kmem -[sS]" options on Linux 4.14 and later kernels built
with CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED enabled. Without the patch, there
will error messages of the type "kmem: <cache name> slab: <address>
invalid freepointer: <obfuscated address>" for caches created during
SLUB bootstrap, as they are likely to have s->random == 0.
(hbathini at linux.ibm.com)
- If readmem() receives a user-space address in a page that has been
swapped to the zswap compressed swap cache, an attempt will be made
to find and decompress the page.
(zhaoqianli at xiaomi.com)
- Fix for the "mount -n [pid|task]" option when running on a live
system. Without the patch, if the [pid|task] has been created since
the last internal task table refresh, the command fails with the
error message "mount: invalid task or pid value: <value>".
(w at laoqinren.net)
- Introduction of the "log -T" option, which translates the leading
timestamp value of each message into human readable format.
(w at laoqinren.net)
- When kernels are built with LLVM, the names of many symbols may be
appended with an ".llvm.<number>" string. As a result, commands
such as "irq" fail with the error message irq: neither irq_desc,
_irq_desc, irq_desc_ptrs or irq_desc_tree symbols exist". This
patch adds the LLVM-generated string to the other strings that are
stripped from symbols before they are stored.
(zhaoqianli at xiaomi.com)
- Prepare for the introduction of ARM64 8.3 Pointer Authentication
as in-kernel feature. The value of CONFIG_ARM64_KERNELPACMASK
will be exported as a vmcoreinfo entry, and will be used with text
return addresses on the kernel stack.
(amit.kachhap at arm.com)
- Several fixes for ARM64 kernels:
(1) Linux kernel patch "arm64: mm: Introduce vabits_actual"
introduced "physvirt_offset", which is not equal to
(PHYS_OFFSET - PAGE_OFFSET) when KASLR is enabled.
physvirt_offset is caculated in arch/arm64/mm/init.c
before memstart_addr (PHYS_OFFSET) is randomized. Let
arm64_VTOP() and arm64_PTOV() use physvirt_offset instead,
whose default value is set to (phys_offset - page_offset)
(2) For ARM64 RAM dumps without any vmcoreinfo and KASLRpassed as
argument, " _stext_vmlinux" is not set. This causes incorrect
calculation of vmalloc_start with VA_BITS_ACTUAL.
(3) For ARM64 RAM dumps For ramdumps without vmcoreinfo, get
CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS from in-kernel config. Without this,
vmemmap size is calculated incorrectly.
(4) Fix the vmemmap_start to match with what the kernel uses.
(vinayakm.list at gmail.com)
- Replace people.redhat.com references with github equivalents.
(anderson at redhat.com)
- Implement support for user-space zram reads on x86_64 for recent
Fedora kernel version 5.6.7-200.fc31. The patch adds the following:
(1) Redefine _PFN_BITS() macro to use MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS.
(2) Fix to determine whether address_space.i_pages is a radix tree
or an xarray.
(3) Fix to not mistakenly select the "lzo" compressor when the
kernel has used the default "lzo-rle" compressor.
(4) Since zram may be provided as a kernel module, it would be
necessary to load its debuginfo during the crash session;
therefore perform the zram structure-size/member-offset
initializations when first required instead of during
session initialization.
(5) Handle the zram_table_entry structure member name change
from "value" to "flags".
(d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com)
- Add support for 1GB huge pages to "vtop" command on x86_64. Without
this patch, the command with a user virtual address corresponding to
a 1GB huge page fails with the error message "vtop: seek error:
physical address: <address> type: "page table".
(lirongqing at baidu.com, chukaiping at foxmail.com)
- Fix six spelling typos in help.c.
(standby24x7 at gmail.com)
- Change tcr_el1_t1sz vmcoreinfo entry name to TCR_EL1_T1SZ according
to kernel commit bbdbc11804ff ("arm64/crash_core: Export TCR_EL1.T1SZ
in vmcoreinfo").
(bhsharma at redhat.com)
- Fix for a failure of calculating kaslr_offset due to an sadump format
restriction. Without the patch set, calculating kaslr_offset fails
because it is based on the assumption that unused part of register
values in the sadump format are always zero cleared.
(d.hatayama at fujitsu.com)
- Support for huge holes in vmem of VMware VMSS dumpfiles. Without the
patch, if the hole is big enough, the multiplication by page size
will truncate as it's operating on a uint32_t.
(minipli at grsecurity.net)
- Beautify and extend debug log for VMware VMSS dumpfiles. Without the
patch, the parser's debug log is missing a few line breaks as well as
some crucial information, like control register dumps.
(minipli at grsecurity.net)
- Support core files with unusual layout that the ELF program headers
do not directly follow the ELF header, such as vmcores generated with
'vmss2core' tool.
(minipli at grsecurity.net)
- Fix for the "log -T" option when crash is started with "--minimal"
option. Without the patch, crash will spin at 100% and continuously
crash at a divide by zero. Disallow the option in minimal mode.
(dwysocha at redhat.com)
- Remove raw-view from s390bpf. With kernel commit ecb1ff6833c4
("s390/debug: remove raw view"), the raw-view is no longer supported
by s390 debug feature. Since there has never been a single user of
the raw-view, remove it from crash as well.
(zaslonko at linux.ibm.com)
- Support s390 debug feature version 3, which was introduced by kernel
commit 0990d836cecb ("s390/debug: debug feature version 3").
(zaslonko at linux.ibm.com)
- Basic support for PaX's split module layout. PaX and grsecurity
kernels split module memory into dedicated r/x and r/w mappings using
'*_rw' and '*_rx' named member variables in 'struct module'. To add
basic support for such kernels, detect the split layout by testing
for the corresponding structure members and use these instead.
(minipli at grsecurity.net)
- Fix for the "kmem -i" option on Linux 5.9-rc1 and later kernels that
contain commit 1008fe6dc36d ("block: remove the all_bdevs list").
Without the patch, the option fails halfway with the error message
'kmem: cannot resolve: "all_bdevs"'.
(k-hagio-ab at nec.com)
- Fix for the "irq -a" option on Linux 4.3 or later kernels that
contain commit 9df872faa7e1 ("genirq: Move field 'affinity' from
irq_data into irq_common_data"). Without the patch, the option
cannot work with the message "irq: -a option not supported or
applicable on this architecture or kernel".
(k-hagio-ab at nec.com)
- Append time zone explicitly to each output of date and time like
"DATE: Thu Nov 29 06:44:02 JST 2018".
(k-hagio-ab at nec.com)
- Fixes for the "trace.so" extension module on Linux 5.6 and later
kernels that contain commit:
(1) 1c5eb4481e01 ("tracing: Rename trace_buffer to array_buffer")
(2) 13292494379f ("tracing: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous")
With the patch set, rename trace_buffer to array_buffer and
ring_buffer to trace_buffer respectively.
(valentin.schneider at arm.com)
- Fix for the "help -D" option listing uninteresting register entries
for SADUMP dumpfiles.
(d.hatayama at fujitsu.com)
- Fix for an initialization-time failure due to offset change of the
name member of struct uts_namespace that might be introduced by
linux-next commit 9a56493f6942 ("uts: Use generic ns_common::count").
(egorenar at linux.ibm.com)
- Add support for VMware guestdump (debug.guest) and vmem (debug.vmem)
files. To use, the companion debug.vmem file must be present in the
same directory as the debug.guest file.
(amakhalov at vmware.com)
- Fix for the "extend" command on a PPC64 targeted x86_64 crash binary.
Without the patch, the command on an x86_64 crash binary that can be
used to analyze ppc64le dumpfiles fails with the error message
"extend: <path to extension>: not an ELF format object".
(aeasi.linux at gmail.com, k-hagio-ab at nec.com)
- Fix for a failure to match arm/aarch64 ELF format of xendump file.
(goodbach at gmail.com)
- Fix for the x86_64 "bt" command in cases where the pt_regs is not
present in the stack. Without the patch, the command can be
incomplete with the error message 'bt: seek error: kernel virtual
address: <address> type: "pt_regs"'.
(dmair at suse.com)
- Fix for the crash.ko memory driver build with Linux 5.8 and later
kernels that contain commit fe557319aa06 ("maccess: rename
probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault").
Additionally, due to commit 0493cb086353 ("maccess: unexport
probe_kernel_write()"), writing kernel memory is no longer possible
from a module. Without this patch, build with the kernels fails
with the error message "error: implicit declaration of function
'probe_kernel_write'".
(ptesarik at suse.com)
- Fix for the memory_driver/Makefile for Linux 5.4 and later kernels
that contain commit 7e35b42591c0 ("kbuild: remove SUBDIRS support").
Without the patch, the "make" command in the memory_driver directory
doesn't build crash memory driver module as expected.
(k-hagio-ab at nec.com)
- Improvements of KASLR offset detection for QEMU, VMware VMSS and
SADUMP dumpfiles:
(1) Try all CPUs to provide CR3 and IDTR, because these registers
on CPU0 can be not initialized or clobbered.
(2) Support 5-level page table by using LA57 bit in CR4.
(3) Get KASLR offset by walking page tree.
(amakhalov at vmware.com)
- Fix for an initialization-time failure with QEMU dumpfiles with Linux
5.8 and later x86_64 kernels that contain commit 9d06c4027f21
("x86/entry: Convert Divide Error to IDTENTRY"), renamed divide_error
handler to asm_exc_divide_error.
(nborisov at suse.com)
- Fix for several compiler warnings on 32-bit architectures when
building with "make warn". Without the patch, gcc generates the
message "warning: format '%ld' expects argument of type 'long int',
but argument 4 has type 'uint64_t' [-Wformat=]" and similar ones as
a result of crash commit 3fedbee9bfbb ("vmware_guestdump: new input
format").
(k-hagio-ab at nec.com)
- Speed up session initialization by avoiding unnecessary processing
in the stkptr_to_task() function when sp is 0 on some architectures.
Without the patch, as it runs through each task's stack to find
whether the given address is in its range, on a system with about
1500 CPUs and 165k running tasks, it takes about a day to finish
session initialization. With the patch applied, it only takes about
5-10 minutes.
(hbathini at linux.ibm.com)
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