linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] kexec: Make a pair of map and unmap reserved pages when kdump fails to start

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:29:13 +0200
From:	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@...il.com>, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	vgoyal@...hat.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, linux390@...ibm.com,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] kexec: Make a pair of map and unmap reserved pages
 when kdump fails to start

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:14:06 +0200
Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:03:22 +0800
> Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@...il.com> wrote:

[snip]

> +static int __kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
> +			struct kexec_segment __user *segments,
> +			unsigned long flags)
> +{
> +	struct kimage **dest_image, *image;
> +	unsigned long i;
> +	int result;
> +
> +	if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH)
> +		dest_image = &kexec_crash_image;
> +	else
> +		dest_image = &kexec_image;
> +
> +	if (nr_segments == 0) {
> +		/* Uninstall image */
> +		kfree(xchg(dest_image, NULL));

Sorry, too fast today...
Should be of course not kfree, but:

kimage_free(dest_image, NULL));

Michael

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