The quilt patch titled Subject: arm64: kexec: initialize kexec_buf struct in load_other_segments() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was arm64-kexec-initialize-kexec_buf-struct-in-load_other_segments.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------ From: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org Subject: arm64: kexec: initialize kexec_buf struct in load_other_segments() Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:42:21 -0700
Patch series "kexec: Fix invalid field access".
The kexec_buf structure was previously declared without initialization. commit bf454ec31add ("kexec_file: allow to place kexec_buf randomly") added a field that is always read but not consistently populated by all architectures. This un-initialized field will contain garbage.
This is also triggering a UBSAN warning when the uninitialized data was accessed:
------------[ cut here ]------------ UBSAN: invalid-load in ./include/linux/kexec.h:210:10 load of value 252 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
Zero-initializing kexec_buf at declaration ensures all fields are cleanly set, preventing future instances of uninitialized memory being used.
An initial fix was already landed for arm64[0], and this patchset fixes the problem on the remaining arm64 code and on riscv, as raised by Mark.
Discussions about this problem could be found at[1][2].
This patch (of 3):
The kexec_buf structure was previously declared without initialization. commit bf454ec31add ("kexec_file: allow to place kexec_buf randomly") added a field that is always read but not consistently populated by all architectures. This un-initialized field will contain garbage.
This is also triggering a UBSAN warning when the uninitialized data was accessed:
------------[ cut here ]------------ UBSAN: invalid-load in ./include/linux/kexec.h:210:10 load of value 252 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
Zero-initializing kexec_buf at declaration ensures all fields are cleanly set, preventing future instances of uninitialized memory being used.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250827-kbuf_all-v1-0-1df9882bb01a@debian.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250827-kbuf_all-v1-1-1df9882bb01a@debian.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250826180742.f2471131255ec1c43683ea07@linux-fo... [0] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/oninomspajhxp4omtdapxnckxydbk2nzmrix7rggmpukpnza... [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250826-akpm-v1-1-3c831f0e3799@debian.org/ [2] Fixes: bf454ec31add ("kexec_file: allow to place kexec_buf randomly") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org Acked-by: Baoquan He bhe@redhat.com Cc: Albert Ou aou@eecs.berkeley.edu Cc: Alexander Gordeev agordeev@linux.ibm.com Cc: Alexandre Ghiti alex@ghiti.fr Cc: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Cc: Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@linux.ibm.com Cc: Coiby Xu coxu@redhat.com Cc: Heiko Carstens hca@linux.ibm.com Cc: Palmer Dabbelt palmer@dabbelt.com Cc: Paul Walmsley paul.walmsley@sifive.com Cc: Sven Schnelle svens@linux.ibm.com Cc: Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com Cc: Will Deacon will@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c~arm64-kexec-initialize-kexec_buf-struct-in-load_other_segments +++ a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ int load_other_segments(struct kimage *i char *initrd, unsigned long initrd_len, char *cmdline) { - struct kexec_buf kbuf; + struct kexec_buf kbuf = {}; void *dtb = NULL; unsigned long initrd_load_addr = 0, dtb_len, orig_segments = image->nr_segments; _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from leitao@debian.org are