[PATCH v5 3/3] arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel

[Coiby Xu]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 06:44:15AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 12:04 AM Coiby Xu <coxu at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> CONFIG_CRASH_DM_CRYPT has been introduced to support LUKS-encrypted
>> device dump target by addressing two challenges [1],
>>  - Kdump kernel may not be able to decrypt the LUKS partition. For some
>>    machines, a system administrator may not have a chance to enter the
>>    password to decrypt the device in kdump initramfs after the 1st kernel
>>    crashes
>>
>>  - LUKS2 by default use the memory-hard Argon2 key derivation function
>>    which is quite memory-consuming compared to the limited memory reserved
>>    for kdump.
>>
>> To also enable this feature for ARM64 and PowerPC, the missing piece is
>> to let the kdump kernel know where to find the dm-crypt keys which are
>> randomly stored in memory reserved for kdump. Introduce a new device
>> tree property dmcryptkeys [2] as similar to elfcorehdr to pass the
>> memory address of the stored info of dm-crypt keys to the kdump kernel.
>> Since this property is only needed by the kdump kernel, it won't be
>> exposed to user space.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250502011246.99238-1-coxu@redhat.com/
>> [2] https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/pull/181
>>
>> Cc: Arnaud Lefebvre <arnaud.lefebvre at clever-cloud.com>
>> Cc: Baoquan he <bhe at redhat.com>
>> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
>> Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Thomas Staudt <tstaudt at de.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy at kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c |  4 ++++
>>  arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c            |  4 ++++
>>  drivers/of/fdt.c                       | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/of/kexec.c                     | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
>
>Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh at kernel.org>

Hi Rob,

Thanks for acknowledging this device tree patch and also merging the
dt-schema PR!

-- 
Best regards,
Coiby