linux-kernel - [PATCH] arm64: kernel: initialize missing kexec

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Message-Id: <20251127182644.1577592-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:26:44 +0000
From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@....com>
To: catalin.marinas@....com,
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	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: initialize missing kexec_buf->random field

Commit bf454ec31add ("kexec_file: allow to place kexec_buf randomly")
introduced the kexec_buf->random field to enable random placement of
kexec_buf.

However, this field was never properly initialized for kexec images
that do not need to be placed randomly, leading to the following UBSAN
warning:

[  +0.364528] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  +0.000019] UBSAN: invalid-load in ./include/linux/kexec.h:210:12
[  +0.000131] load of value 2 is not a valid value for type 'bool' (aka '_Bool')
[  +0.000003] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 927 Comm: kexec Not tainted 6.18.0-rc7+ #3 PREEMPT(full)
[  +0.000002] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
[  +0.000000] Call trace:
[  +0.000001]  show_stack+0x24/0x40 (C)
[  +0.000006]  __dump_stack+0x28/0x48
[  +0.000002]  dump_stack_lvl+0x7c/0xb0
[  +0.000002]  dump_stack+0x18/0x34
[  +0.000001]  ubsan_epilogue+0x10/0x50
[  +0.000002]  __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value+0xc8/0xd0
[  +0.000003]  locate_mem_hole_callback+0x28c/0x2a0
[  +0.000003]  kexec_locate_mem_hole+0xf4/0x2f0
[  +0.000001]  kexec_add_buffer+0xa8/0x178
[  +0.000002]  image_load+0xf0/0x258
[  +0.000001]  __arm64_sys_kexec_file_load+0x510/0x718
[  +0.000002]  invoke_syscall+0x68/0xe8
[  +0.000001]  el0_svc_common+0xb0/0xf8
[  +0.000002]  do_el0_svc+0x28/0x48
[  +0.000001]  el0_svc+0x40/0xe8
[  +0.000002]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x140
[  +0.000002]  el0t_64_sync+0x1bc/0x1c0

To address this, initialise kexec_buf->random field properly.

Fixes: bf454ec31add ("kexec_file: allow to place kexec_buf randomly")
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@....com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c        | 3 +++
 arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c
index 532d72ea42ee..db6fb8c599a1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ static void *image_load(struct kimage *image,
 	kbuf.buf_min = 0;
 	kbuf.buf_max = ULONG_MAX;
 	kbuf.top_down = false;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+	kbuf.random = false;
+#endif

 	kbuf.buffer = kernel;
 	kbuf.bufsz = kernel_len;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 410060ebd86d..06f38866424a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -94,7 +94,11 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *image,
 			char *initrd, unsigned long initrd_len,
 			char *cmdline)
 {
-	struct kexec_buf kbuf = {};
+	struct kexec_buf kbuf = {
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+		.random = false,
+#endif
+	};
 	void *dtb = NULL;
 	unsigned long initrd_load_addr = 0, dtb_len,
 		      orig_segments = image->nr_segments;
--
LEVI:{C3F47F37-75D8-414A-A8BA-3980EC8A46D7}