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

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Message-ID: <YlY51XjPFN1vMvQV@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
Date:   Wed, 13 Apr 2022 10:47:49 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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 04/12/22 at 07:27pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, Andrew.

Since it's also MM related, so ping you and x86 maintainers to see who
can help pick them.