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

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Apr 12 2022 - 22:27:44 EST


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