Re: [PATCH v5 04/17] arm64: kexec_file: Fix CMA page leaks in segment placement retry loops

From: sashiko-bot

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 06:31:32 EST


> During kexec image placement retry loops, any midway failure causes
> the loader to truncate `image->nr_segments` back to its initial state
> to purge the failed segments.
>
> However, this truncation introduces a memory leak. The CMA pages
> allocated via kexec_add_buffer() during the failed attempt are tracked
> in the `image->segment_cma` array. Because the subsequent cleanup paths
> only iterate up to the truncated `nr_segments` boundary, these allocated
> CMA pages outside the new boundary are permanently leaked.
>
> Fix this by explicitly releasing the associated CMA buffers in
> the failure paths before `image->nr_segments` is reduced.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 07d24902977e4 ("kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation")
> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!

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