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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/14] arm64: kexec_file: Fix elf_headers memory leak in retry loop
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:15:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260921091509.A930B1F000FF@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260921090450.807575-6-ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
> If load_other_segments() fails after image->elf_headers is assigned,
> the memory lifecycle is safely managed by the global kimage object
> and will be freed in arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup().
>
> However, during a retry loop in image_load(), a subsequent iteration
> will allocate a new buffer and overwrite image->elf_headers. This
> permanently leaks the stale memory from the previous iteration before
> the global cleanup can track it.
>
> Fix this by explicitly freeing the stale `image->elf_headers` buffer
> before assigning the newly allocated headers.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 108aa503657e ("arm64: kexec_file: try more regions if loading segments fails")
> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-21 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-21 9:04 [PATCH v6 00/14] crash: Fix several bugs Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 01/14] kexec: Fix CMA segment address translation with non-zero text_offset Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:17 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 02/14] kexec: Record allocated CMA pages to fix release size mismatch Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:14 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 03/14] kexec: Extract kexec_free_segment_cma() from kimage_free_cma() Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:13 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 04/14] arm64: kexec_file: Fix CMA page leaks in segment placement retry loops Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:18 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 05/14] arm64: kexec_file: Fix elf_headers memory leak in retry loop Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:15 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 06/14] LoongArch: kexec_file: Fix CMA page leaks in segment placement retry loops Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:13 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 07/14] LoongArch: kexec_file: Fix elf_headers memory leak in retry loop Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:14 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 08/14] LoongArch: kexec_file: Fix a modified_cmdline leak Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 09/14] x86/crash: Fix massive out-of-bounds write on 32-bit Highmem Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 10/14] crash: Extract crash_get_memory_ranges() helper Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:19 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 11/14] crash: Factor out crash_find_elfcorehdr() helper Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:17 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 12/14] crash: Normalize the kexec_load elfcorehdr at load time Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:19 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 13/14] driver core: Add device_hotplug_lock_assert_held() helper Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:18 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 9:04 ` [PATCH v6 14/14] crash: Fix TOCTOU race in crash memory range collection Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 9:25 ` sashiko-bot
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