linux/security/integrity/ima
Harshit Mogalapalli 9e1f51c1ad ima: verify the previous kernel's IMA buffer lies in addressable RAM
[ Upstream commit 10d1c75ed4 ]

Patch series "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()", v3.

When the second-stage kernel is booted via kexec with a limiting command
line such as "mem=<size>" we observe a pafe fault that happens.

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff97793ff47000
    RIP: ima_restore_measurement_list+0xdc/0x45a
    #PF: error_code(0x0000)  not-present page

This happens on x86_64 only, as this is already fixed in aarch64 in
commit: cbf9c4b961 ("of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer
against memory bounds")

This patch (of 3):

When the second-stage kernel is booted with a limiting command line (e.g.
"mem=<size>"), the IMA measurement buffer handed over from the previous
kernel may fall outside the addressable RAM of the new kernel.  Accessing
such a buffer can fault during early restore.

Introduce a small generic helper, ima_validate_range(), which verifies
that a physical [start, end] range for the previous-kernel IMA buffer lies
within addressable memory:
	- On x86, use pfn_range_is_mapped().
	- On OF based architectures, use page_is_ram().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251231061609.907170-1-harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251231061609.907170-2-harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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: Paul Webb <paul.x.webb@oracle.com>
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: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-03-04 07:21:17 -05:00
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ima.h ima: measure kexec load and exec events as critical data 2025-04-29 15:54:54 -04:00
ima_api.c lsm: use lsm_prop in security_current_getsecid 2024-10-11 14:34:14 -04:00
ima_appraise.c ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr 2025-10-03 07:50:56 -04:00
ima_asymmetric_keys.c fs: port xattr to mnt_idmap 2023-01-19 09:24:28 +01:00
ima_crypto.c ima: add crypto agility support for template-hash algorithm 2024-04-12 09:59:04 -04:00
ima_efi.c ima: require signed IMA policy when UEFI secure boot is enabled 2023-08-01 08:18:11 -04:00
ima_fs.c ima_fs: get rid of lookup-by-dentry stuff 2025-06-17 18:10:14 -04:00
ima_iint.c lsm: add the inode_free_security_rcu() LSM implementation hook 2024-08-12 15:35:04 -04:00
ima_init.c ima: Suspend PCR extends and log appends when rebooting 2024-12-11 11:55:53 -05:00
ima_kexec.c ima: verify the previous kernel's IMA buffer lies in addressable RAM 2026-03-04 07:21:17 -05:00
ima_main.c ima: Attach CREDS_CHECK IMA hook to bprm_creds_from_file LSM hook 2025-12-18 14:02:27 +01:00
ima_modsig.c ima: Add __counted_by for struct modsig and use struct_size() 2023-10-20 10:52:41 -07:00
ima_mok.c IMA: remove -Wmissing-prototypes warning 2021-07-23 08:05:06 -04:00
ima_policy.c ima: Handle error code returned by ima_filter_rule_match() 2025-12-18 14:03:10 +01:00
ima_queue.c ima: measure kexec load and exec events as critical data 2025-04-29 15:54:54 -04:00
ima_queue_keys.c fs: port xattr to mnt_idmap 2023-01-19 09:24:28 +01:00
ima_template.c ima: Fix misuse of dereference of pointer in template_desc_init_fields() 2022-11-16 11:47:55 -05:00
ima_template_lib.c ima: fix buffer overrun in ima_eventdigest_init_common 2024-10-09 22:49:24 -04:00
ima_template_lib.h ima: define a new template field named 'd-ngv2' and templates 2022-05-05 11:49:13 -04:00
Kconfig ima: make the kexec extra memory configurable 2025-04-29 15:54:54 -04:00
Makefile ima: Make it independent from 'integrity' LSM 2024-02-15 23:43:47 -05:00