[tip:x86/urgent] x86, kexec: fix crashdump panic with CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP

From: tip-bot for Huang Ying
Date: Fri May 08 2009 - 01:16:26 EST


Commit-ID: 6407df5ca54a511054200a1eb23f78f723ca1de4
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6407df5ca54a511054200a1eb23f78f723ca1de4
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 8 May 2009 10:51:41 +0800
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 7 May 2009 22:01:05 -0700

x86, kexec: fix crashdump panic with CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP

Tim Starling reported that crashdump will panic with kernel compiled
with CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP due to null pointer deference in
machine_kexec_32.c: machine_kexec(), when deferencing
kexec_image. Refering to:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13265

This patch fixes the BUG via replacing global variable reference:
kexec_image in machine_kexec() with local variable reference: image,
which is more appropriate, and will not be null.

Same BUG is in machine_kexec_64.c too, so fixed too in the same way.

[ Impact: fix crash on kexec ]

Reported-by: Tim Starling <tstarling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1241751101.6259.85.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>


---
arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
index e7368c1..c1c429d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
unsigned int preserve_context);

#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
- if (kexec_image->preserve_context)
+ if (image->preserve_context)
save_processor_state();
#endif

@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
image->preserve_context);

#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
- if (kexec_image->preserve_context)
+ if (image->preserve_context)
restore_processor_state();
#endif

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index 89cea4d..84c3bf2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
int save_ftrace_enabled;

#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
- if (kexec_image->preserve_context)
+ if (image->preserve_context)
save_processor_state();
#endif

@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
image->preserve_context);

#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
- if (kexec_image->preserve_context)
+ if (image->preserve_context)
restore_processor_state();
#endif

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