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charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.9.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260819_104749_923545_E2A1A9B3 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 15.33 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org While debugging a misleading error on s390x where kexec -s reported "syscall kexec_file_load not available" instead of the actual EINVAL from a kernel command line that exceeded the architecture limit, we found that some kexec image probe functions return -EINVAL instead of -ENOEXEC for format mismatches, and kexec_image_probe_default() has a bug where it returns whatever the last loader returned rather than always returning -ENOEXEC when no loader matches. Patch 1 fixes all probe functions to return -ENOEXEC when they do not recognize the image format. Patch 2 fixes kexec_image_probe_default() to distinguish format mismatches (-ENOEXEC) from real errors (e.g. -ENOMEM), propagating real errors immediately and only continuing to the next loader on -ENOEXEC. kexec-tools patch: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260814075329.30203-1-mpilaniy@redhat.com/ Signed-off-by: Mukesh Pilaniya --- Changes in v2: - Added patch 2 to fix error propagation in kexec_image_probe_default(), as suggested by Pratyush Yadav. - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813-mpilaniy-v1-1-777d4d0e30f7@redhat.com To: Catalin Marinas To: Will Deacon To: Mark Rutland To: Huacai Chen To: WANG Xuerui To: Paul Walmsley To: Palmer Dabbelt To: Albert Ou To: Alexandre Ghiti To: Andrew Morton To: Baoquan He To: Mike Rapoport To: Pasha Tatashin To: Pratyush Yadav To: Philipp Rudo To: Tao Liu Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: loongarch@lists.linux.dev Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org --- Mukesh Pilaniya (2): kexec: return -ENOEXEC from image probe functions on mismatch kexec: fix error propagation in kexec_image_probe_default() arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c | 4 ++-- arch/loongarch/kernel/kexec_efi.c | 4 ++-- arch/riscv/kernel/kexec_image.c | 4 ++-- kernel/kexec_elf.c | 4 ++-- kernel/kexec_file.c | 12 +++++++----- 5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) --- base-commit: dd8c49a14f169d58e7a07a2c96fb588f3456efa0 change-id: 20260813-mpilaniy-ffb0cc92c313 Best regards, -- Mukesh Pilaniya