linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer

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Message-Id: <20220412192734.fcda8988d189c8e2e2830b03@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:27:34 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, dyoung@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer

On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:32:17 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On 02/23/22 at 07:32pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> > The memory leak is reported by kmemleak detector, has been existing
> > for very long time. It casue much memory loss on large machine
> > with huge memory hotplug which will trigger kdump kernel reloading
> > many times, with kexec_file_load interface.
> 
> Could you merge these two patches? Or should I ping x86 maintainers to
> take them? 

Ah, sorry, I tend to fall asleep if there's "x86" in the subject. 
Poking a sleeping Andrew is always the right thing to do.  Shall look
at them.