From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,zohar@linux.ibm.com,yifei.l.liu@oracle.com,tglx@linutronix.de,stable@vger.kernel.org,sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com,sohil.mehta@intel.com,rppt@kernel.org,paul.x.webb@oracle.com,noodles@fb.com,mingo@redhat.com,joel.granados@kernel.org,jbohac@suse.cz,hpa@zytor.com,henry.willard@oracle.com,guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com,graf@amazon.com,bp@alien8.de,bhe@redhat.com,ardb@kernel.org,harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-nonmm-stable] x86-kexec-add-a-sanity-check-on-previous-kernels-ima-kexec-buffer.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:49:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260121034935.94E60C16AAE@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
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The quilt patch titled
Subject: x86/kexec: add a sanity check on previous kernel's ima kexec buffer
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
x86-kexec-add-a-sanity-check-on-previous-kernels-ima-kexec-buffer.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Subject: x86/kexec: add a sanity check on previous kernel's ima kexec buffer
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:16:09 -0800
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.
Without carrying the measurement list across kexec, the attestation
would fail.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251231061609.907170-4-harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Fixes: b69a2afd5afc ("x86/kexec: Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec")
Reported-by: Paul Webb <paul.x.webb@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: guoweikang <guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Henry Willard <henry.willard@oracle.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@fb.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yifei Liu <yifei.l.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c~x86-kexec-add-a-sanity-check-on-previous-kernels-ima-kexec-buffer
+++ a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -439,9 +439,15 @@ int __init ima_free_kexec_buffer(void)
int __init ima_get_kexec_buffer(void **addr, size_t *size)
{
+ int ret;
+
if (!ima_kexec_buffer_size)
return -ENOENT;
+ ret = ima_validate_range(ima_kexec_buffer_phys, ima_kexec_buffer_size);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
*addr = __va(ima_kexec_buffer_phys);
*size = ima_kexec_buffer_size;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com are
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