[PATCH 2/3] x86/kexec: remove incorrect elf header buffer freeing

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Fri Oct 29 00:24:23 PDT 2021


Before calling arch specific kexec_file loading function, the image
instance has been initialized. So 'image->elf_headers' must be NULL.
It doesn't make sense to free the elf header buffer in the place.

So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index fd8223fa2de5..dc8b17568784 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -373,9 +373,6 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
 void *arch_kexec_kernel_image_load(struct kimage *image)
 {
-	vfree(image->elf_headers);
-	image->elf_headers = NULL;
-
 	if (!image->fops || !image->fops->load)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOEXEC);
 
-- 
2.17.2




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