[PATCH v2 0/2] x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Tue Apr 12 19:27:34 PDT 2022


On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:32:17 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On 02/23/22 at 07:32pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> > The memory leak is reported by kmemleak detector, has been existing
> > for very long time. It casue much memory loss on large machine
> > with huge memory hotplug which will trigger kdump kernel reloading
> > many times, with kexec_file_load interface.
> 
> Could you merge these two patches? Or should I ping x86 maintainers to
> take them? 

Ah, sorry, I tend to fall asleep if there's "x86" in the subject. 
Poking a sleeping Andrew is always the right thing to do.  Shall look
at them.




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