[PATCH v7 04/15] arm64: kexec_file: Fix elf_headers memory leak in retry loop
Jinjie Ruan
ruanjinjie at huawei.com
Mon Oct 26 00:51:50 PDT 2026
A retry allocates new elf headers and overwrites image->elf_headers,
leaking the previous buffer. Free it before assigning.
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun at arm.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 108aa503657e ("arm64: kexec_file: try more regions if loading segments fails")
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index e48f29167b38..2f750e5f4fcc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
vfree(headers);
goto out_err;
}
+
+ if (unlikely(image->elf_headers))
+ vfree(image->elf_headers);
+
image->elf_headers = headers;
image->elf_load_addr = kbuf.mem;
image->elf_headers_sz = headers_sz;
--
2.34.1
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