chore: support arm64 kexec from zboot kernel images

When using kernel images that are using ZBOOT for arm64 we need to
extract the vmlinux from the vmlinuz EFI file and pass it on the the
kexec call.

Ref: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/tree/kexec/kexec-pe-zboot.c

Fixes: #8907

Signed-off-by: Noel Georgi <[email protected]>

internal/app/machined/pkg/runtime/v1alpha1/v1alpha1_sequencer_tasks.go

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	goruntime "runtime"
 	"slices"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/siderolabs/talos/internal/pkg/partition"
 	"github.com/siderolabs/talos/internal/pkg/secureboot"
 	"github.com/siderolabs/talos/internal/pkg/secureboot/tpm2"
+	"github.com/siderolabs/talos/internal/zboot"
 	"github.com/siderolabs/talos/pkg/conditions"
 	"github.com/siderolabs/talos/pkg/images"
 	"github.com/siderolabs/talos/pkg/kernel/kspp"
@@ -2141,6 +2143,24 @@ func KexecPrepare(_ runtime.Sequence, data any) (runtime.TaskExecutionFunc, stri
 
 		defer kernel.Close() //nolint:errcheck
 
+		fd := int(kernel.Fd())
+
+		// on arm64 we need to extract the kernel from the zboot image if it's compressed
+		if goruntime.GOARCH == "arm64" {
+			var fileCloser io.Closer
+
+			fd, fileCloser, err = zboot.Extract(kernel)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			defer func() {
+				if fileCloser != nil {
+					fileCloser.Close() //nolint:errcheck
+				}
+			}()
+		}
+
 		initrd, err := os.Open(initrdPath)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
@@ -2150,7 +2170,7 @@ func KexecPrepare(_ runtime.Sequence, data any) (runtime.TaskExecutionFunc, stri
 
 		cmdline := strings.TrimSpace(defaultEntry.Cmdline)
 
-		if err = unix.KexecFileLoad(int(kernel.Fd()), int(initrd.Fd()), cmdline, 0); err != nil {
+		if err = unix.KexecFileLoad(fd, int(initrd.Fd()), cmdline, 0); err != nil {
 			switch {
 			case errors.Is(err, unix.ENOSYS):
 				log.Printf("kexec support is disabled in the kernel")

internal/zboot/zboot.go

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+// file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+// Package zboot provides a function to extract the kernel from a Zboot image.
+package zboot
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/zstd"
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+)
+
+// fileCloser is an interface that wraps the Close method.
+type fileCloser interface {
+	Close() error
+}
+
+// Extract extracts the kernel from a Zboot image and returns a file descriptor of the extracted kernel.
+func Extract(kernel *os.File) (int, fileCloser, error) {
+	// https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/tree/include/kexec-pe-zboot.h
+	var peZbootheaderData [28]byte
+
+	if _, err := io.ReadFull(kernel, peZbootheaderData[:]); err != nil {
+		return 0, nil, err
+	}
+
+	// https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S
+	// https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/include/linux/pe.h#n42
+	if !bytes.Equal(peZbootheaderData[:2], []byte("MZ")) {
+		return 0, nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid PE Zboot header")
+	}
+
+	// not a Zboot image, return
+	if !bytes.Equal(peZbootheaderData[4:8], []byte("zimg")) {
+		return int(kernel.Fd()), nil, nil
+	}
+
+	payloadOffset := binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(peZbootheaderData[8:12])
+
+	payloadSize := binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(peZbootheaderData[12:16])
+
+	if _, err := kernel.Seek(int64(payloadOffset), io.SeekStart); err != nil {
+		return 0, nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to seek to kernel zstd data from vmlinuz.efi: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	z, err := zstd.NewReader(io.LimitReader(kernel, int64(payloadSize)))
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create zstd reader: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer z.Close()
+
+	fd, err := unix.MemfdCreate("vmlinux", 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, nil, fmt.Errorf("memfdCreate: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	kernelMemfd := os.NewFile(uintptr(fd), "vmlinux")
+
+	if _, err := io.Copy(kernelMemfd, z); err != nil {
+		kernelMemfd.Close() //nolint:errcheck
+
+		return 0, nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to copy zstd data to memfd: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	if _, err := kernelMemfd.Seek(0, io.SeekStart); err != nil {
+		kernelMemfd.Close() //nolint:errcheck
+
+		return 0, nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to seek to start of memfd: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return fd, kernelMemfd, nil
+}