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crash_dump-dont-log-dm-crypt-key-bytes-in-read_key_from_user_keying.patch removed from -mm tree

merged mm-hotfixes-stable Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message Mar 10 Stable branch

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The quilt patch titled
Subject: crash_dump: don't log dm-crypt key bytes in read_key_from_user_keying
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
crash_dump-dont-log-dm-crypt-key-bytes-in-read_key_from_user_keying.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
Subject: crash_dump: don't log dm-crypt key bytes in read_key_from_user_keying
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:09 +0100

When debug logging is enabled, read_key_from_user_keying() logs the first 8 bytes of the key payload and partially exposes the dm-crypt key. Stop logging any key bytes.

Fixes 479e58549b0f ("crash_dump: store dm crypt keys in kdump reserved memory")
Cc Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc Coiby Xu <[email protected]>
Cc Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>

---

 kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c renamed from kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c~crash_dump-dont-log-dm-crypt-key-bytes-in-read_key_from_user_keying +2 -2
@@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ static int read_key_from_user_keying(str
 
 	memcpy(dm_key->data, ukp->data, ukp->datalen);
 	dm_key->key_size = ukp->datalen;
-	kexec_dprintk("Get dm crypt key (size=%u) %s: %8ph\n", dm_key->key_size,
-		      dm_key->key_desc, dm_key->data);
+	kexec_dprintk("Get dm crypt key (size=%u) %s\n", dm_key->key_size,
+		      dm_key->key_desc);
 
 out:
 	up_read(&key->sem);

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

fork-replace-simple_strtoul-with-kstrtoul-in-coredump_filter_setup.patch crash_dump-remove-redundant-less-than-zero-check.patch crash_dump-fix-typo-in-function-name-read_key_from_user_keying.patch crash_dump-use-sysfs_emit-in-sysfs-show-functions.patch