From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,will@kernel.org,svens@linux.ibm.com,stable@vger.kernel.org,paul.walmsley@sifive.com,palmer@dabbelt.com,hca@linux.ibm.com,gor@linux.ibm.com,coxu@redhat.com,catalin.marinas@arm.com,borntraeger@linux.ibm.com,bhe@redhat.com,aou@eecs.berkeley.edu,alex@ghiti.fr,agordeev@linux.ibm.com,leitao@debian.org,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] s390-kexec-initialize-kexec_buf-struct.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:11:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250904001146.5B52AC4CEF4@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: s390: kexec: initialize kexec_buf struct
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
s390-kexec-initialize-kexec_buf-struct.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Subject: s390: kexec: initialize kexec_buf struct
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:42:23 -0700
The kexec_buf structure was previously declared without initialization.
commit bf454ec31add ("kexec_file: allow to place kexec_buf randomly")
added a field that is always read but not consistently populated by all
architectures. This un-initialized field will contain garbage.
This is also triggering a UBSAN warning when the uninitialized data was
accessed:
------------[ cut here ]------------
UBSAN: invalid-load in ./include/linux/kexec.h:210:10
load of value 252 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
Zero-initializing kexec_buf at declaration ensures all fields are
cleanly set, preventing future instances of uninitialized memory being
used.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250827-kbuf_all-v1-3-1df9882bb01a@debian.org
Fixes: bf454ec31add ("kexec_file: allow to place kexec_buf randomly")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
arch/s390/kernel/kexec_elf.c | 2 +-
arch/s390/kernel/kexec_image.c | 2 +-
arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 6 +++---
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/kexec_elf.c~s390-kexec-initialize-kexec_buf-struct
+++ a/arch/s390/kernel/kexec_elf.c
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
static int kexec_file_add_kernel_elf(struct kimage *image,
struct s390_load_data *data)
{
- struct kexec_buf buf;
+ struct kexec_buf buf = {};
const Elf_Ehdr *ehdr;
const Elf_Phdr *phdr;
Elf_Addr entry;
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/kexec_image.c~s390-kexec-initialize-kexec_buf-struct
+++ a/arch/s390/kernel/kexec_image.c
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
static int kexec_file_add_kernel_image(struct kimage *image,
struct s390_load_data *data)
{
- struct kexec_buf buf;
+ struct kexec_buf buf = {};
buf.image = image;
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c~s390-kexec-initialize-kexec_buf-struct
+++ a/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static int kexec_file_update_purgatory(s
static int kexec_file_add_purgatory(struct kimage *image,
struct s390_load_data *data)
{
- struct kexec_buf buf;
+ struct kexec_buf buf = {};
int ret;
buf.image = image;
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static int kexec_file_add_purgatory(stru
static int kexec_file_add_initrd(struct kimage *image,
struct s390_load_data *data)
{
- struct kexec_buf buf;
+ struct kexec_buf buf = {};
int ret;
buf.image = image;
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static int kexec_file_add_ipl_report(str
{
__u32 *lc_ipl_parmblock_ptr;
unsigned int len, ncerts;
- struct kexec_buf buf;
+ struct kexec_buf buf = {};
unsigned long addr;
void *ptr, *end;
int ret;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from leitao@debian.org are
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