FAILED: patch "[PATCH] arm64: kexec_file: Fix elf_headers memory leak in retry loop" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] arm64: kexec_file: Fix elf_headers memory leak in retry loop" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

[Sasha Levin]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x ac302aea3d824ccc99f29b8e499c365cb9a684a9
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261109202921-failed-5.10-ac302aea3d82@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' 'HEAD^..'

Thanks,
Sasha

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From ac302aea3d824ccc99f29b8e499c365cb9a684a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2026 20:57:24 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: kexec_file: Fix elf_headers memory leak in retry loop

A retry allocates new elf headers and overwrites image->elf_headers,
leaking the previous buffer.

Free it before assigning.

Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 108aa503657e ("arm64: kexec_file: try more regions if loading segments fails")
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: drop the redundant NULL check before vfree()]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 854d872dfd0f5..14f453dd09465 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
 			vfree(headers);
 			goto out_err;
 		}
+
+		vfree(image->elf_headers);
 		image->elf_headers = headers;
 		image->elf_load_addr = kbuf.mem;
 		image->elf_headers_sz = headers_sz;
-- 
2.53.0