From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.10.y] arm64: kexec_file: Fix elf_headers memory leak in retry loop
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2026 02:44:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261114074433.3235650-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261109202921-failed-5.10-ac302aea3d82@kernel.org>
From: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
[ Upstream commit ac302aea3d824ccc99f29b8e499c365cb9a684a9 ]
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>
[ sashal: Changed the vfree() argument from image->elf_headers to image->arch.elf_headers. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
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 0cde47a63bebf..1226d665a5872 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
vfree(headers);
goto out_err;
}
+
+ vfree(image->arch.elf_headers);
image->arch.elf_headers = headers;
image->arch.elf_headers_mem = kbuf.mem;
image->arch.elf_headers_sz = headers_sz;
--
2.53.0
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2026-11-10 1:29 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] arm64: kexec_file: Fix elf_headers memory leak in retry loop" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree Sasha Levin
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