[PATCH] x86/kexec: Add a sanity check on previous kernel's ima kexec buffer
From: Harshit Mogalapalli
Date: Wed Nov 12 2025 - 14:30:56 EST
When the second-stage kernel is booted via kexec with a limiting command
line such as "mem=<size>", the physical range that contains the carried
over IMA measurement list may fall outside the truncated RAM leading to
a kernel panic.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff97793ff47000
RIP: ima_restore_measurement_list+0xdc/0x45a
#PF: error_code(0x0000) – not-present page
Other architectures already validate the range with page_is_ram(), as
done in commit: cbf9c4b9617b ("of: check previous kernel's
ima-kexec-buffer against memory bounds") do a similar check on x86.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: b69a2afd5afc ("x86/kexec: Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec")
Reported-by: Paul Webb <paul.x.webb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Have tested the kexec for x86 kernel with IMA_KEXEC enabled and the
above patch works good. Paul initially reported this on 6.12 kernel but
I was able to reproduce this on 6.18, so I tried replicating how this
was fixed in drivers/of/kexec.c
---
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 1b2edd07a3e1..fcef197d180e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -439,9 +439,23 @@ int __init ima_free_kexec_buffer(void)
int __init ima_get_kexec_buffer(void **addr, size_t *size)
{
+ unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
+
if (!ima_kexec_buffer_size)
return -ENOENT;
+ /*
+ * Calculate the PFNs for the buffer and ensure
+ * they are with in addressable memory.
+ */
+ start_pfn = PFN_DOWN(ima_kexec_buffer_phys);
+ end_pfn = PFN_DOWN(ima_kexec_buffer_phys + ima_kexec_buffer_size - 1);
+ if (!pfn_range_is_mapped(start_pfn, end_pfn)) {
+ pr_warn("IMA buffer at 0x%llx, size = 0x%zx beyond memory\n",
+ ima_kexec_buffer_phys, ima_kexec_buffer_size);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
*addr = __va(ima_kexec_buffer_phys);
*size = ima_kexec_buffer_size;
--
2.50.1