Hi Baoquan, On 10/29/21 at 03:24pm, Baoquan He wrote: > 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 > Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> nitpick: the first two patches can be merged togeter, but I'm also fine if they are in two patches. Thanks Dave _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
