[PATCH v8 6/7] x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel

Arnaud Lefebvre arnaud.lefebvre at clever-cloud.com
Wed Apr 23 13:59:06 PDT 2025


>diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
>index 68530fad05f7..5604a5109858 100644
>--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
>+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
>@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ static int setup_cmdline(struct kimage *image, struct boot_params *params,
> 	if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH) {
> 		len = sprintf(cmdline_ptr,
> 			"elfcorehdr=0x%lx ", image->elf_load_addr);
>+
>+		if (image->dm_crypt_keys_addr != 0)
>+			len += sprintf(cmdline_ptr + len,
>+					"dmcryptkeys=0x%lx ", image->dm_crypt_keys_addr);
> 	}
> 	memcpy(cmdline_ptr + len, cmdline, cmdline_len);
> 	cmdline_len += len;

You are adding another kernel parameter but I believe without taking its
length into account. See the MAX_ELFCOREHDR_STR_LEN constant which is added to the
params_cmdline_sz variable for the elfcorehdr= parameter.

This will (at least during my tests) truncate the cmdline given to the crash kernel because
the next section (efi_map_offset) will have an offset starting inside the cmdline section
and it might overwrite the end of it:

kexec-bzimage64.c:480:
params_cmdline_sz = sizeof(struct boot_params) + cmdline_len +
			MAX_ELFCOREHDR_STR_LEN; <<< Should have + 31 here for "dmcryptkeys=0x<ptr> "
params_cmdline_sz = ALIGN(params_cmdline_sz, 16);
kbuf.bufsz = params_cmdline_sz + ALIGN(efi_map_sz, 16) +
			sizeof(struct setup_data) +
			sizeof(struct efi_setup_data) +
			sizeof(struct setup_data) +
			RNG_SEED_LENGTH;

And I believe the buffer might be too small.

Also, there is another check a few lines above that needs to take the size into account:

/*
  * In case of crash dump, we will append elfcorehdr=<addr> to
  * command line. Make sure it does not overflow
  */
if (cmdline_len + MAX_ELFCOREHDR_STR_LEN > header->cmdline_size) {
	pr_err("Appending elfcorehdr=<addr> to command line exceeds maximum allowed length\n");
	return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
}



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