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

steven chen
2025-05-13T15:21:55Z

On 5/12/2025 7:25 PM, Baoquan He wrote:
> 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>
Thanks!
>> 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
>>