Hi all, <snip> > > > > <formletter> > > > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > > > > stable kernel tree. Please read: > > > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > > > for how to do this properly. > > > > </formletter> > > > Thanks for the info Greg. > > > I will re-submit the two patches in the proper format. > > No need. I'm testing these patches now. I'm not exactly sure what the > > problem is. Stable wasn't Cc'ed. Is it that you sent the patch > > directly to Greg or added "Fixes"? > I had not Cced stable, but had "Fixes" tag in the patch. > Fixes: 7b8589cc29e7 ("ima: on soft reboot, save the measurement list") > The problem is that the buffer allocated for forwarding the IMA measurement > list is not freed - at the end of the kexec call and also in an error path. > Please see the patch description for > [PATCH v2 2/2] ima: Free IMA measurement buffer after kexec syscall > 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. > thanks, > -lakshmi Mimi, Lakshmi, it looks like these two fixes haven't been submitted to stable kernels. Could you please submit them? Thanks a lot! Kind regards, Petr
