* + crash_dump-dont-log-dm-crypt-key-bytes-in-read_key_from_user_keying.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch
@ 2026-02-28 19:52 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-02-28 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, vgoyal, stable, dyoung, coxu, bhe, thorsten.blum,
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The patch titled
Subject: crash_dump: don't log dm-crypt key bytes in read_key_from_user_keying
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
crash_dump-dont-log-dm-crypt-key-bytes-in-read_key_from_user_keying.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/crash_dump-dont-log-dm-crypt-key-bytes-in-read_key_from_user_keying.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Subject: crash_dump: don't log dm-crypt key bytes in read_key_from_user_keying
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:09 +0100
When debug logging is enabled, read_key_from_user_keying() logs the first
8 bytes of the key payload and partially exposes the dm-crypt key. Stop
logging any key bytes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260227230008.858641-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Fixes: 479e58549b0f ("crash_dump: store dm crypt keys in kdump reserved memory")
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c~crash_dump-dont-log-dm-crypt-key-bytes-in-read_key_from_user_keying
+++ a/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c
@@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ static int read_key_from_user_keying(str
memcpy(dm_key->data, ukp->data, ukp->datalen);
dm_key->key_size = ukp->datalen;
- kexec_dprintk("Get dm crypt key (size=%u) %s: %8ph\n", dm_key->key_size,
- dm_key->key_desc, dm_key->data);
+ kexec_dprintk("Get dm crypt key (size=%u) %s\n", dm_key->key_size,
+ dm_key->key_desc);
out:
up_read(&key->sem);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from thorsten.blum@linux.dev are
crash_dump-dont-log-dm-crypt-key-bytes-in-read_key_from_user_keying.patch
fork-replace-simple_strtoul-with-kstrtoul-in-coredump_filter_setup.patch
crash_dump-remove-redundant-less-than-zero-check.patch
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