[PATCH] riscv: Fix a NULL pointer reference in machine_kexec_prepare

From: Tao Liu

Date: Thu May 28 2026 - 23:36:09 EST


A NULL pointer reference issue is noticed in riscv's machine_kexec_prepare,
where image->segment[i].buf might be NULL and copied unchecked.

The NULL buf comes from security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c:
ima_add_kexec_buffer(), where kbuf is added by kexec_add_buffer(),
but kbuf.buffer is NULL.

Fix this by simply adding a check before copy.

Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <ltao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 2306ce3e5f22..d81d576f9cb5 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
if (image->segment[i].memsz <= sizeof(fdt))
continue;

+ if (image->segment[i].buf == NULL)
+ continue;
+
if (image->file_mode)
memcpy(&fdt, image->segment[i].buf, sizeof(fdt));
else if (copy_from_user(&fdt, image->segment[i].buf, sizeof(fdt)))
--
2.47.0