[BUG] liveupdate: incoming/outgoing session ioctls accepted in wrong phase can panic
Pratyush Yadav
pratyush at kernel.org
Mon May 25 08:26:51 PDT 2026
On Sun, May 24 2026, Yifei Chu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Short version: I found that liveupdate session ioctls can be accepted on the wrong kind of session. In my tests, that
> lets userspace drive memfd LUO into KHO restore paths for current-kernel preserved memory, which hits kho_restore_page()
> warnings and panics with panic_on_warn=1.
I already sent a fix for this:
https://lore.kernel.org/kexec/20260519122428.2378446-1-pratyush@kernel.org/
I need to do a refresh of this patch with some tests.
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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
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