Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nra...@linux.microsoft.com> writes:
> 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 <nra...@linux.microsoft.com>
> Suggested-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhi...@linux.microsoft.com>
> Fixes: 7b8589cc29e7 ("ima: on soft reboot, save the measurement list")
Good catch.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauer...@linux.ibm.com>
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center
