[PATCH v2 0/2] x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer
Baoquan He
bhe at redhat.com
Thu Mar 31 04:32:17 PDT 2022
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?
Thanks
Baoquan
>
> And in patch 2, clean up is done to remove unneeded
> arch_kexec_kernel_image_load() and rename functions.
>
> V1 post can be found here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211029072424.9109-1-bhe@redhat.com/T/#u
>
> v1->v2:
> No code change. The v1 post has been acked by Dave Young but not
> merged. In v2, just merging the old patch 1 and 2 as per Dave's concern
> in v1 post.
>
> Baoquan He (2):
> x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer
> kexec_file: clean up arch_kexec_kernel_image_load
>
> arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 23 +++++++++--------------
> include/linux/kexec.h | 1 -
> kernel/kexec_file.c | 9 ++-------
> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.31.1
>
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