The memory leak is reported by kmemleak detector, has been existing for very long time. It could casue much memory loss on large machine with huge memory hotplug which will trigger kdump kernel reloading many times, with kexec_file_load interface. And in patch 2, 3, clean up is done to remove unnecessary elf header buffer freeing and unneeded arch_kexec_kernel_image_load(). Baoquan He (3): x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer x86/kexec: remove incorrect elf header buffer freeing kexec_file: clean up arch_kexec_kernel_image_load arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 23 +++++++++-------------- include/linux/kexec.h | 1 - kernel/kexec_file.c | 9 ++------- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) -- 2.17.2 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
