[PATCH 2/7] LoongArch: kho: strip stale kho_handover= from reused cmdline
George Guo
dongtai.guo at linux.dev
Sun May 24 23:28:05 PDT 2026
From: George Guo <guodongtai at kylinos.cn>
When kexec is invoked with --reuse-cmdline after a liveupdate boot, the
running kernel's command line already contains a kho_handover= parameter
from the previous kexec load. load_other_segments() prepends a fresh
kho_handover= for the new handover FDT but then appends the original
cmdline verbatim, resulting in two kho_handover= entries:
kho_handover=0x4000@<new_fdt>,... kho_handover=0x4000@<stale_fdt>,...
early_param() calls early_parse_kho() for each occurrence in order, so
kho_populate() is invoked twice and the second call overwrites the first
with the stale FDT address. The stale address no longer holds a valid
KHO FDT, causing __kho_radix_walk_tree() to dereference a garbage
pointer and panic early in mm_core_init().
Fix this by adding the new kho_handover= to the cmdline prefix first,
then stripping any stale kho_handover= tokens from the appended original
cmdline portion, so only the freshly generated entry survives.
Signed-off-by: George Guo <guodongtai at kylinos.cn>
---
arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index ddf4d0e0e7fd..ffaedd055e62 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -71,6 +71,37 @@ static void cmdline_add_kho(struct kimage *image, unsigned long *cmdline_tmplen,
image->kho.scratch->bufsz, (u64)image->kho.scratch->mem);
*cmdline_tmplen += n;
}
+
+/*
+ * Remove all "kho_handover=..." tokens from cmdline. Needed when
+ * --reuse-cmdline is used: the running kernel's cmdline already carries a
+ * stale kho_handover= from the previous kexec load; without removal the new
+ * kernel sees two entries and kho_populate() ends up using the wrong (stale)
+ * FDT address.
+ */
+static void cmdline_remove_kho(char *cmdline)
+{
+ const char *key = "kho_handover=";
+ size_t key_len = strlen(key);
+ char *p = cmdline;
+
+ while ((p = strstr(p, key)) != NULL) {
+ char *start = p;
+ char *end;
+
+ /* Only match at a token boundary */
+ if (start != cmdline && *(start - 1) != ' ') {
+ p += key_len;
+ continue;
+ }
+ end = start + key_len;
+ while (*end && *end != ' ')
+ end++;
+ while (*end == ' ')
+ end++;
+ memmove(start, end, strlen(end) + 1);
+ }
+}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
@@ -249,6 +280,10 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
}
memcpy(modified_cmdline + cmdline_tmplen, cmdline, cmdline_len);
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER
+ /* Strip stale kho_handover= that --reuse-cmdline may have carried over */
+ cmdline_remove_kho(modified_cmdline + cmdline_tmplen);
+#endif
cmdline = modified_cmdline;
image->arch.cmdline_ptr = (unsigned long)cmdline;
--
2.25.1
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