Thanks for catching this Stefan.

On 1/23/24 19:38, Stefan Berger wrote:
      kbuf.buffer = kexec_buffer;
      kbuf.bufsz = kexec_buffer_size;
      kbuf.memsz = kexec_segment_size;


A dent with this patch when only applying this patch:

Two consecutive kexec loads lead to this here:

[   30.670330] IMA buffer at 0x3fff10000, size = 0xf0000
[   32.519618] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   32.519669] Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (00000000093ae29c)
[   32.519762] WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 1796 at mm/vmalloc.c:2826 vfree+0x254/0x340 [   32.519786] Modules linked in: bonding tls rfkill sunrpc virtio_console virtio_balloon crct10dif_vpmsum fuse loop zram bochs drm_vram_helper drm_kms_helper drm_ttm_helper ttm ibmvscsi scsi_transport_srp drm virtio_blk virtio_net vmx_crypto net_failover crc32c_vpmsum failover pseries_wdt drm_panel_orientation_quirks scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua dm_multipath
[   32.519939] CPU: 11 PID: 1796 Comm: kexec Not tainted 6.5.0+ #112
[   32.519953] Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER8E (raw) 0x4b0201 0xf000004 of:SLOF,git-5b4c5a hv:linux,kvm pSeries [   32.519973] NIP:  c0000000004bd004 LR: c0000000004bd000 CTR: c00000000017ef00
[   32.519986] REGS: c00000004593b670 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.5.0+)
[   32.519999] MSR:  8000000002029033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 44424842  XER: 00000000
[   32.520023] CFAR: c0000000001515b0 IRQMASK: 0
                GPR00: c0000000004bd000 c00000004593b910 c000000001e17000 0000000000000038                 GPR04: 00000000ffffbfff c00000004593b6e8 c00000004593b6e0 00000003f9580000                 GPR08: 0000000000000027 c0000003fb707010 0000000000000001 0000000044424842                 GPR12: c00000000017ef00 c00000003fff1300 0000000000000000 0000000000000000                 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000                 GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000003 0000000000000004                 GPR24: 00007fffeab0f68f 000000000000004c 0000000000000000 c00000002bdce400                 GPR28: c000000002bf28f0 0000000000000000 c008000004770000 0000000000000000
[   32.520180] NIP [c0000000004bd004] vfree+0x254/0x340
[   32.520212] LR [c0000000004bd000] vfree+0x250/0x340
[   32.520225] Call Trace:
[   32.520232] [c00000004593b910] [c0000000004bd000] vfree+0x250/0x340 (unreliable) [   32.520250] [c00000004593b990] [c00000000091d590] ima_add_kexec_buffer+0xe0/0x3c0 [   32.520296] [c00000004593ba90] [c000000000280968] sys_kexec_file_load+0x148/0x9b0 [   32.520333] [c00000004593bb70] [c00000000002ea84] system_call_exception+0x174/0x320 [   32.520372] [c00000004593be50] [c00000000000d6a0] system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4
[   32.520408] --- interrupt: c00 at 0x7fffa52e7ae4
[   32.520420] NIP:  00007fffa52e7ae4 LR: 0000000108481d8c CTR: 0000000000000000
[   32.520452] REGS: c00000004593be80 TRAP: 0c00   Not tainted  (6.5.0+)
[   32.520483] MSR:  800000000000f033 <SF,EE,PR,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24424202  XER: 00000000
[   32.520507] IRQMASK: 0
                GPR00: 000000000000017e 00007fffeab09470 00007fffa53f6f00 0000000000000003                 GPR04: 0000000000000004 000000000000004c 00007fffeab0f68f 0000000000000000                 GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000                 GPR12: 0000000000000000 00007fffa559b280 0000000000000002 0000000000000001                 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000                 GPR20: 00007fffa53f0454 00007fffa53f0458 0000000000000000 0000000000000001                 GPR24: 0000000000000000 00007fffeab0f64d 0000000000000006 0000000000000000                 GPR28: 0000000000000003 00007fffeab09530 00007fffeab09b08 0000000000000007
[   32.520767] NIP [00007fffa52e7ae4] 0x7fffa52e7ae4
[   32.521192] LR [0000000108481d8c] 0x108481d8c
[   32.521587] --- interrupt: c00
[   32.521981] Code: 3884c208 4bfc20f1 60000000 0fe00000 60000000 60000000 60420000 3c62ff94 7fc4f378 38632b20 4bc944cd 60000000 <0fe00000> eba10068 4bffff34 2c080000
[   32.522823] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[   32.536347] Removed old IMA buffer reservation.
[   32.536473] IMA buffer at 0x3fff10000, size = 0xf0000

This vfree here probably has to go:

         ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
         if (ret) {
                 pr_err("Error passing over kexec measurement buffer.\n");
                 vfree(kexec_buffer);
                 return;
         }


The vfree may need to be removed or replaced with ima_free_kexec_file_buf() but it doesn't seem to solve the problem alone.
I got rid of this issue later with this:

static void ima_reset_kexec_file(struct seq_file *sf)
{
         sf->buf = NULL;
         sf->size = 0;
         sf->read_pos = 0;
         sf->count = 0;
}

static void ima_free_kexec_file_buf(struct seq_file *sf)
{
         vfree(sf->buf);
         ima_reset_kexec_file(sf);
}

[...]

I was able to repro the issue by calling kexec 'load' multiple times on patch #1. Good catch, thanks.

Earlier I was testing the multiple 'load' scenario on the last patch only.
Here onward I will call it on each of the patch individually.

@@ -170,6 +175,9 @@ void ima_add_kexec_buffer(struct kimage *image)
         image->ima_segment_index = image->nr_segments - 1;
         image->is_ima_segment_index_set = true;

+       /* kexec owns kexec_buffer since kexec_add_buffer and will vfree() it */
+       ima_reset_kexec_file(&ima_kexec_file);
+
        pr_debug("kexec measurement buffer for the loaded kernel at 0x%lx.\n",
                  kbuf.mem);


Thanks for the suggested solution. Looks like you applied it on top of
patch #3.
I applied it on patch #1, and it seems to be working.

I will dig deeper to ensure it doesn't cause any memory leaks, and will incorporate it in v5.

Thanks again.

~Tushar

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