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

Thiago Jung Bauermann bauerman at linux.ibm.com
Sat Jan 23 09:31:51 AEDT 2021


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>

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Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center


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