[PATCH v12 02/15] powerpc/crash: Fix possible memory leak in update_crash_elfcorehdr()

Jinjie Ruan
2026-04-02T07:26:05Z

In get_crash_memory_ranges(), if crash_exclude_mem_range() failed
after realloc_mem_ranges() has successfully allocated the cmem
memory, it just returns an error but leaves cmem pointing to
the allocated memory, nor is it freed in the caller
update_crash_elfcorehdr(), which cause a memory leak, goto out
to free the cmem.

Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Fixes: 849599b702ef ("powerpc/crash: add crash memory hotplug support")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
index a325c1c02f96..1d12cef8e1e0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ static void update_crash_elfcorehdr(struct kimage *image, struct memory_notify *
ret = get_crash_memory_ranges(&cmem);
if (ret) {
pr_err("Failed to get crash mem range\n");
- return;
+ goto out;
}

/*
--
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