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Message-ID: <74c0d1b900d8f518bc152478682a353c29e0faa3.camel@surriel.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:40:41 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
To: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...a.com,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
x86@...nel.org, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm,ima,kexec: use memblock_free_late from
ima_free_kexec_buffer
On Fri, 2023-07-21 at 13:38 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 10:14:31AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > The code calling ima_free_kexec_buffer runs long after the memblock
> > allocator has already been torn down, potentially resulting in a
> > use
> > after free in memblock_isolate_range.
> >
> > With KASAN or KFENCE, this use after free will result in a BUG
> > from the idle task, and a subsequent kernel panic.
> >
> > Switch ima_free_kexec_buffer over to memblock_free_late to avoid
> > that issue.
> >
> > Fixes: fee3ff99bc67 ("powerpc: Move arch independent ima kexec
> > functions to drivers/of/kexec.c")
>
> Fixes: b69a2afd5afc ("x86/kexec: Carry forward IMA measurement log on
> kexec")
>
Thank you for digging further back in the history of that code.
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>
> (I'm assuming someone else is taking this)
I hope so, but I don't know who...
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