linux-kernel - [BUGFIX] Fix crashdump panic with CONFIG_KEXEC

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Date:	Fri, 08 May 2009 10:51:41 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Tim Starling <tstarling@...imedia.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [BUGFIX] Fix crashdump panic with CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP

Tim Starling reported that crashdump will panic with kernel compiled
with CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP due to null pointer deference in
machine_kexec_32.c: machine_kexec(), when deferencing
kexec_image. Refering to:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13265

This patch fixes the BUG via replacing global variable reference:
kexec_image in machine_kexec() with local variable reference: image,
which is more appropriate, and will not be null.

Same BUG is in machine_kexec_64.c too, so fixed too in the same way.

Reported-by: Tim Starling <tstarling@...imedia.org>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c |    4 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 				       unsigned int preserve_context);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
-	if (kexec_image->preserve_context)
+	if (image->preserve_context)
 		save_processor_state();
 #endif
 
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 					   image->preserve_context);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
-	if (kexec_image->preserve_context)
+	if (image->preserve_context)
 		restore_processor_state();
 #endif
 
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 	int save_ftrace_enabled;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
-	if (kexec_image->preserve_context)
+	if (image->preserve_context)
 		save_processor_state();
 #endif
 
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 				       image->preserve_context);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
-	if (kexec_image->preserve_context)
+	if (image->preserve_context)
 		restore_processor_state();
 #endif
 


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