[PATCH 2/2] ima: Free IMA measurement buffer after kexec syscall

Lakshmi Ramasubramanian nramas at linux.microsoft.com
Thu Feb 4 04:46:40 AEDT 2021


On 1/22/21 2:31 PM, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> 
> Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas at linux.microsoft.com> writes:
> 
>> IMA allocates kernel virtual memory to carry forward the measurement
>> list, from the current kernel to the next kernel on kexec system call,
>> in ima_add_kexec_buffer() function.  This buffer is not freed before
>> completing the kexec system call resulting in memory leak.
>>
>> Add ima_buffer field in "struct kimage" to store the virtual address
>> of the buffer allocated for the IMA measurement list.
>> Free the memory allocated for the IMA measurement list in
>> kimage_file_post_load_cleanup() function.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas at linux.microsoft.com>
>> Suggested-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at linux.microsoft.com>
>> Fixes: 7b8589cc29e7 ("ima: on soft reboot, save the measurement list")
> 
> Good catch.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at linux.ibm.com>
> 

Thanks Thiago.

  -lakshmi



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