[PATCH 6.18 021/333] powerpc/crash: adjust the elfcorehdr size

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-17T17:05:33Z

From: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>

[ Upstream commit 04e707cb77c272cb0bb2e2e3c5c7f844d804a089 ]

With crash hotplug support enabled, additional memory is allocated to
the elfcorehdr kexec segment to accommodate resources added during
memory hotplug events. However, the kdump FDT is not updated with the
same size, which can result in elfcorehdr corruption in the kdump
kernel.

Update elf_headers_sz (the kimage member representing the size of the
elfcorehdr kexec segment) to reflect the total memory allocated for the
elfcorehdr segment instead of the elfcorehdr buffer size at the time of
kdump load. This allows of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt() to reserve the
full elfcorehdr memory in the kdump FDT and prevents elfcorehdr
corruption.

Fixes: 849599b702ef8 ("powerpc/crash: add crash memory hotplug support")
Reviewed-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227171801.2238847-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
index e7ef8b2a25546..5f6d50e4c3d45 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/file_load_64.c
@@ -450,6 +450,11 @@ static int load_elfcorehdr_segment(struct kimage *image, struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
kbuf->buffer = headers;
kbuf->mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN;
kbuf->bufsz = headers_sz;
+
+ /*
+ * Account for extra space required to accommodate additional memory
+ * ranges in elfcorehdr due to memory hotplug events.
+ */
kbuf->memsz = headers_sz + kdump_extra_elfcorehdr_size(cmem);
kbuf->top_down = false;

@@ -460,7 +465,14 @@ static int load_elfcorehdr_segment(struct kimage *image, struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
}

image->elf_load_addr = kbuf->mem;
- image->elf_headers_sz = headers_sz;
+
+ /*
+ * If CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG is enabled, the elfcorehdr kexec segment
+ * memsz can be larger than bufsz. Always initialize elf_headers_sz
+ * with memsz. This ensures the correct size is reserved for elfcorehdr
+ * memory in the FDT prepared for kdump.
+ */
+ image->elf_headers_sz = kbuf->memsz;
image->elf_headers = headers;
out:
kfree(cmem);
--
2.51.0