Re: [PATCH] x86/kexec: Add a sanity check on previous kernel's ima kexec buffer

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:30:02 -0800 Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com> wrote:

> When the second-stage kernel is booted via kexec with a limiting command
> line such as "mem=<size>", the physical range that contains the carried
> over IMA measurement list may fall outside the truncated RAM leading to
> a kernel panic.
> 
>     BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff97793ff47000
>     RIP: ima_restore_measurement_list+0xdc/0x45a
>     #PF: error_code(0x0000) – not-present page
> 
> Other architectures already validate the range with page_is_ram(), as
> done in commit: cbf9c4b9617b ("of: check previous kernel's
> ima-kexec-buffer against memory bounds") do a similar check on x86.

Thanks.

> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: b69a2afd5afc ("x86/kexec: Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec")

That was via the x86 tree so I assume the x86 team (Boris?) will be
processing this patch.

I'll put it into mm.git's mm-hotfixes branch for now, to get a bit of
testing and to generally track its progress.

> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -439,9 +439,23 @@ int __init ima_free_kexec_buffer(void)
>  
>  int __init ima_get_kexec_buffer(void **addr, size_t *size)
>  {
> +	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
> +
>  	if (!ima_kexec_buffer_size)
>  		return -ENOENT;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Calculate the PFNs for the buffer and ensure
> +	 * they are with in addressable memory.

"within" ;)

> +	 */
> +	start_pfn = PFN_DOWN(ima_kexec_buffer_phys);
> +	end_pfn = PFN_DOWN(ima_kexec_buffer_phys + ima_kexec_buffer_size - 1);
> +	if (!pfn_range_is_mapped(start_pfn, end_pfn)) {
> +		pr_warn("IMA buffer at 0x%llx, size = 0x%zx beyond memory\n",
> +			ima_kexec_buffer_phys, ima_kexec_buffer_size);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
>  	*addr = __va(ima_kexec_buffer_phys);
>  	*size = ima_kexec_buffer_size;