Re: [PATCH] ima: Kdump kernel doesn't need IMA to do integrity measurement

Baoquan He
2025-05-13T02:25:44Z

On 05/02/25 at 01:03pm, steven chen wrote:
> From: Steven Chen <chenste@linux.microsoft.com>
>
> Kdump kernel doesn't need IMA to do integrity measurement.
> Hence the measurement list in 1st kernel doesn't need to be copied to
> kdump kenrel.
>
> Here skip allocating buffer for measurement list copying if loading
> kdump kernel. Then there won't be the later handling related to
> ima_kexec_buffer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Chen <chenste@linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
> security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

I applied this patch on top of below IMA patchset, and did a test.
[PATCH v13 0/9] ima: kexec: measure events between kexec load and execute

When I loaded kdump kernel as below with '-d' specified:

/sbin/kexec -s -d -p --command-line=BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.15.0-rc6+ ro console=ttyS0,115200N81 irqpoll nr_cpus=1 reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory mce=off numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 acpi_no_memhotplug transparent_hugepage=never nokaslr hest_disable novmcoredd cma=0 hugetlb_cma=0 pcie_ports=compat disable_cpu_apicid=0 --initrd=/boot/initramfs-6.15.0-rc6+kdump.img /boot/vmlinuz-6.15.0-rc6+

I can see that this patch works to skip copying measurement list to kdump
kernel as expected..

=====Without this patch===
[48522.060422] kexec_file: kernel: 000000006fbcb87f kernel_size: 0xe99200
[48522.067742] PEFILE: Unsigned PE binary
[48522.094849] ima: kexec measurement buffer for the loaded kernel at 0x6efff000.
[48522.102982] crash_core: Crash PT_LOAD ELF header. phdr=00000000cae5d7e6 vaddr=0xffff8da640100000, paddr=0x100000, sz=0x5af00000 e_phnum=67 p_offset=0x100000
......snip...
=====

=====With this patch applied====
[ 2101.704125] kexec_file: kernel: 0000000046d8985c kernel_size: 0xeab200
[ 2101.711436] PEFILE: Unsigned PE binary
[ 2101.734752] crash_core: Crash PT_LOAD ELF header. phdr=000000006fc83a51 vaddr=0xffff899480100000, paddr=0x100000, sz=0x5af00000 e_phnum=67 p_offset=0x100000
......snip...
=====>

My only concern is the patch subject is not very sepcific, it better
relfect the exact action taken in this patch, like:

ima: do not copy measurement list to kdump kernel

Other than above concern, please feel free to add my:

Tested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>

> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c
> index 38cb2500f4c3..7362f68f2d8b 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c
> @@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ void ima_add_kexec_buffer(struct kimage *image)
> void *kexec_buffer = NULL;
> int ret;
>
> + if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH)
> + return;
> +
> /*
> * Reserve extra memory for measurements added during kexec.
> */
> --
> 2.43.0
>