Tim Starling reported that crashdump will panic with kernel compiled with CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP due to null pointer deference in machine_kexec_32.c: machine_kexec(), when deferencing kexec_image. Refering to: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13265 This patch fixes the BUG via replacing global variable reference: kexec_image in machine_kexec() with local variable reference: image, which is more appropriate, and will not be null. Same BUG is in machine_kexec_64.c too, so fixed too in the same way. Reported-by: Tim Starling Signed-off-by: Huang Ying --- arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image) unsigned int preserve_context); #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP - if (kexec_image->preserve_context) + if (image->preserve_context) save_processor_state(); #endif @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image) image->preserve_context); #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP - if (kexec_image->preserve_context) + if (image->preserve_context) restore_processor_state(); #endif --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image) int save_ftrace_enabled; #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP - if (kexec_image->preserve_context) + if (image->preserve_context) save_processor_state(); #endif @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image) image->preserve_context); #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP - if (kexec_image->preserve_context) + if (image->preserve_context) restore_processor_state(); #endif