Commit ac302aea3d82 for kernel
commit ac302aea3d824ccc99f29b8e499c365cb9a684a9
Author: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Date: Thu Nov 5 20:57:24 2026 +0800
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>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 854d872dfd0f..14f453dd0946 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;