[PATCH v5 01/17] kexec: Fix CMA segment address translation with non-zero text_offset

From: Jinjie Ruan

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 06:08:28 EST


kimage_load_cma_segment() and kimage_map_segment() translate a CMA
segment to a kernel virtual address with page_address(cma), ignoring
segment->mem. But arm64's image_load() adds text_offset to segment->mem,
so the kernel payload is copied to the wrong offset while image->start
points past it, and kexec jumps into the middle of the kernel.
kimage_map_segment() has the same problem for any CMA segment whose mem
was moved.

Add kimage_cma_vaddr() to translate a boot physical address inside a CMA
segment to its virtual address, and use it in both places.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Justinien Bouron <jbouron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 07d24902977e ("kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kexec_core.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index dc770b9a6d05..7f7cb77f0caa 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -738,11 +738,23 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_page(struct kimage *image,
return page;
}

+/*
+ * Translate a boot physical address inside a CMA segment to a kernel
+ * virtual address. Architecture loaders may move segment->mem away from
+ * the CMA base (arm64 adds text_offset), so the offset must be preserved.
+ */
+static void *kimage_cma_vaddr(struct page *cma, unsigned long mem)
+{
+ unsigned long cma_base = page_to_boot_pfn(cma) << PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ return page_address(cma) + (mem - cma_base);
+}
+
static int kimage_load_cma_segment(struct kimage *image, int idx)
{
struct kexec_segment *segment = &image->segment[idx];
struct page *cma = image->segment_cma[idx];
- char *ptr = page_address(cma);
+ char *ptr = kimage_cma_vaddr(cma, segment->mem);
size_t ubytes, mbytes;
int result = 0;
unsigned char __user *buf = NULL;
@@ -965,7 +977,7 @@ void *kimage_map_segment(struct kimage *image, int idx)

cma = image->segment_cma[idx];
if (cma)
- return page_address(cma);
+ return kimage_cma_vaddr(cma, image->segment[idx].mem);

addr = image->segment[idx].mem;
size = image->segment[idx].memsz;
--
2.34.1