From: George Guo <dongtai.guo@linux.dev>
To: chenhuacai@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org,
pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, pratyush@kernel.org
Cc: kernel@xen0n.name, graf@amazon.com, shuah@kernel.org,
loongarch@lists.linux.dev, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, George Guo <guodongtai@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] LoongArch: kho: strip stale kho_handover= from reused cmdline
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 14:28:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260525062810.103367-3-dongtai.guo@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260525062810.103367-1-dongtai.guo@linux.dev>
From: George Guo <guodongtai@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@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-25 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-25 6:28 [PATCH 0/7] LoongArch: add KHO support and selftests George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 1/7] LoongArch: Add KHO basic support George Guo
2026-05-25 17:34 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-05-28 13:26 ` George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` George Guo [this message]
2026-05-25 17:49 ` [PATCH 2/7] LoongArch: kho: strip stale kho_handover= from reused cmdline Pratyush Yadav
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 3/7] LoongArch: Add missing linux/mm.h include in asm/io.h George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 4/7] LoongArch: kexec: avoid overwriting QEMU's machine FDT at 0x100000 George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 5/7] selftests/kho: add LoongArch vmtest support George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 6/7] selftests/kho: LoongArch: disable PS/2 input devices for QEMU virt George Guo
2026-05-25 6:28 ` [PATCH 7/7] selftests/kho: handle QEMU not exiting after kexec on LoongArch George Guo
2026-05-25 7:48 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-05-25 7:48 ` [PATCH 0/7] LoongArch: add KHO support and selftests Mike Rapoport
2026-05-25 10:25 ` Huacai Chen
2026-05-25 11:24 ` Mike Rapoport
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