linux/security
Harshit Mogalapalli 10d1c75ed4 ima: verify the previous kernel's IMA buffer lies in addressable RAM
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>
2026-01-26 19:07:10 -08:00
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apparmor Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to pin 2025-12-05 14:36:21 -08:00
bpf lsm: replace the name field with a pointer to the lsm_id struct 2025-10-22 19:24:18 -04:00
integrity ima: verify the previous kernel's IMA buffer lies in addressable RAM 2026-01-26 19:07:10 -08:00
ipe kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users 2026-01-20 19:44:19 -08:00
keys kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users 2026-01-20 19:44:19 -08:00
landlock landlock: Improve the comment for domain_is_scoped 2025-12-29 16:19:39 +01:00
loadpin kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users 2026-01-20 19:44:19 -08:00
lockdown lockdown: move initcalls to the LSM framework 2025-10-22 19:24:27 -04:00
safesetid safesetid: move initcalls to the LSM framework 2025-10-22 19:24:26 -04:00
selinux kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users 2026-01-20 19:44:19 -08:00
smack Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to pin 2025-12-05 14:36:21 -08:00
tomoyo Trivial optimization. 2025-12-14 15:21:02 +12:00
yama lsm: replace the name field with a pointer to the lsm_id struct 2025-10-22 19:24:18 -04:00
commoncap.c Capabilities patch for v6.19 2025-12-04 20:10:28 -08:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Refactor devcgroup_seq_show to use seq_put* helpers 2025-11-11 19:47:24 -05:00
inode.c Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to pin 2025-12-05 14:36:21 -08:00
Kconfig lsm: CONFIG_LSM can depend on CONFIG_SECURITY 2025-09-11 16:32:04 -04:00
Kconfig.hardening rust: add bitmap API. 2025-09-22 15:52:44 -04:00
lsm.h lsm: consolidate all of the LSM framework initcalls 2025-10-22 19:24:28 -04:00
lsm_audit.c net: Retire DCCP socket. 2025-04-11 18:58:10 -07:00
lsm_init.c lsm: use unrcu_pointer() for current->cred in security_init() 2025-11-19 10:32:06 -05:00
lsm_notifier.c lsm: split the notifier code out into lsm_notifier.c 2025-10-22 19:24:15 -04:00
lsm_syscalls.c lsm: rework lsm_active_cnt and lsm_idlist[] 2025-10-22 19:24:19 -04:00
Makefile lsm: split the init code out into lsm_init.c 2025-10-22 19:24:16 -04:00
min_addr.c lsm: consolidate all of the LSM framework initcalls 2025-10-22 19:24:28 -04:00
security.c lsm: cleanup the debug and console output in lsm_init.c 2025-10-22 19:24:23 -04:00