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Commit 993a1103 authored by Dave Young's avatar Dave Young Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/kexec: Fix a kexec_file_load() failure



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  b6664ba4 ("s390, kexec_file: drop arch_kexec_mem_walk()")

changed the behavior of kexec_locate_mem_hole(): it will try to allocate
free memory only when kbuf.mem is initialized to zero.

However, x86's kexec_file_load() implementation reuses a struct
kexec_buf allocated on the stack and its kbuf.mem member gets set by
each kexec_add_buffer() invocation.

The second kexec_add_buffer() will reuse the same kbuf but not
reinitialize kbuf.mem.

Therefore, explictily reset kbuf.mem each time in order for
kexec_locate_mem_hole() to locate a free memory region each time.

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Fixes: b6664ba4 ("s390, kexec_file: drop arch_kexec_mem_walk()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Yannik Sembritzki <yannik@sembritzki.me>
Cc: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181228011247.GA9999@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
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