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ima: Free IMA measurement buffer after kexec syscall
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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@linux.microsoft.com>
Suggested-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Fixes: 7b8589c ("ima: on soft reboot, save the measurement list")
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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nramas authored and gregkh committed Mar 4, 2021
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/kexec.h
Expand Up @@ -300,6 +300,11 @@ struct kimage {
/* Information for loading purgatory */
struct purgatory_info purgatory_info;
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_IMA_KEXEC
/* Virtual address of IMA measurement buffer for kexec syscall */
void *ima_buffer;
#endif
};

/* kexec interface functions */
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions kernel/kexec_file.c
Expand Up @@ -166,6 +166,11 @@ void kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image)
vfree(pi->sechdrs);
pi->sechdrs = NULL;

#ifdef CONFIG_IMA_KEXEC
vfree(image->ima_buffer);
image->ima_buffer = NULL;
#endif /* CONFIG_IMA_KEXEC */

/* See if architecture has anything to cleanup post load */
arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(image);

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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c
Expand Up @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ void ima_add_kexec_buffer(struct kimage *image)
return;
}

image->ima_buffer = kexec_buffer;

pr_debug("kexec measurement buffer for the loaded kernel at 0x%lx.\n",
kbuf.mem);
}
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