[PATCH v4 01/12] kexec: Record allocated CMA pages to fix release size mismatch

From: Jinjie Ruan

Date: Mon Sep 07 2026 - 09:04:44 EST


The CMA pages allocated for a kexec segment are released using the
segment's memsz to calculate the number of pages. However, some
architecture loaders modify the segment's memsz after allocation
(e.g. arm64 subtracts text_offset), causing the release function to
free fewer pages than were originally allocated, leaking the remaining
CMA pages.

Add a per-segment `segment_cma_pages` array to store the number of
pages actually allocated from CMA. Populate it during
kexec_add_buffer() using the aligned memsz, and use it in
kimage_free_cma() to accurately release all allocated pages.

This avoids relying on the potentially modified segment->memsz and
prevents silent CMA memory leaks.

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: Brian Mak <makb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Justinien Bouron <jbouron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260729031235.2840255-1-ruanjinjie%40huawei.com
Fixes: 07d24902977e ("kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kexec.h | 1 +
kernel/kexec_core.c | 7 ++++---
kernel/kexec_file.c | 13 +++++++++----
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index 0af8ae4fdd08..6b1df80524bf 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ struct kimage {
unsigned long nr_segments;
struct kexec_segment segment[KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX];
struct page *segment_cma[KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX];
+ unsigned long segment_cma_pages[KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX];

struct list_head control_pages;
struct list_head dest_pages;
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index dc770b9a6d05..c6bb9e48c590 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -560,14 +560,15 @@ static void kimage_free_cma(struct kimage *image)

for (i = 0; i < image->nr_segments; i++) {
struct page *cma = image->segment_cma[i];
- u32 nr_pages = image->segment[i].memsz >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ unsigned long nr_pages = image->segment_cma_pages[i];

if (!cma)
continue;

- arch_kexec_pre_free_pages(page_address(cma), nr_pages);
- dma_release_from_contiguous(NULL, cma, nr_pages);
+ arch_kexec_pre_free_pages(page_address(cma), (unsigned int)nr_pages);
+ dma_release_from_contiguous(NULL, cma, (int)nr_pages);
image->segment_cma[i] = NULL;
+ image->segment_cma_pages[i] = 0;
}

}
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index 59fb9d71e9d8..67d6df9824e6 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ static int kexec_walk_resources(struct kexec_buf *kbuf,

static int kexec_alloc_contig(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
{
- size_t nr_pages = kbuf->memsz >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ size_t nr_pages = PFN_DOWN(kbuf->memsz);
unsigned long mem;
struct page *p;

@@ -756,14 +756,16 @@ int kexec_locate_mem_hole(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
*/
int kexec_add_buffer(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
{
+ unsigned long nr_segments = kbuf->image->nr_segments;
struct kexec_segment *ksegment;
+ size_t nr_cma_pages = 0;
int ret;

/* Currently adding segment this way is allowed only in file mode */
if (!kbuf->image->file_mode)
return -EINVAL;

- if (kbuf->image->nr_segments >= KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX)
+ if (nr_segments >= KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX)
return -EINVAL;

/*
@@ -789,12 +791,15 @@ int kexec_add_buffer(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
return ret;

/* Found a suitable memory range */
- ksegment = &kbuf->image->segment[kbuf->image->nr_segments];
+ ksegment = &kbuf->image->segment[nr_segments];
ksegment->kbuf = kbuf->buffer;
ksegment->bufsz = kbuf->bufsz;
ksegment->mem = kbuf->mem;
ksegment->memsz = kbuf->memsz;
- kbuf->image->segment_cma[kbuf->image->nr_segments] = kbuf->cma;
+ kbuf->image->segment_cma[nr_segments] = kbuf->cma;
+ if (kbuf->cma)
+ nr_cma_pages = PFN_DOWN(kbuf->memsz);
+ kbuf->image->segment_cma_pages[nr_segments] = nr_cma_pages;
kbuf->image->nr_segments++;
return 0;
}
--
2.34.1