Re: [PATCH v5 04/17] arm64: kexec_file: Fix CMA page leaks in segment placement retry loops
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> 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 <[email protected]> > Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> > Cc: Breno Leitao <[email protected]> > Cc: Pratyush Yadav <[email protected]> > Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> > Cc: Yeoreum Yun <[email protected]> > Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Fixes: 07d24902977e4 ("kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation") > Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <[email protected]> Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great! -- Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/[email protected]?part=4