ima: do not copy measurement list to kdump kernel
authorSteven Chen <chenste@linux.microsoft.com>
Tue, 13 May 2025 14:31:29 +0000 (07:31 -0700)
committerMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Wed, 14 May 2025 10:40:09 +0000 (06:40 -0400)
Kdump kernel doesn't need IMA to do integrity measurement.
Hence the measurement list in 1st kernel doesn't need to be copied to
kdump kernel.

Here skip allocating buffer for measurement list copying if loading
kdump kernel. Then there won't be the later handling related to
ima_kexec_buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Chen <chenste@linux.microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c

index 38cb250..7362f68 100644 (file)
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ void ima_add_kexec_buffer(struct kimage *image)
        void *kexec_buffer = NULL;
        int ret;
 
+       if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH)
+               return;
+
        /*
         * Reserve extra memory for measurements added during kexec.
         */