[PATCH v10 2/8] powerpc/crash: Fix possible memory leak in update_crash_elfcorehdr()

Jinjie Ruan ruanjinjie at huawei.com
Wed Mar 25 13:58:58 AEDT 2026


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.

Fixes: 849599b702ef ("powerpc/crash: add crash memory hotplug support")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie at 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;
 	}
 
 	/*
-- 
2.34.1



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