Re: [PATCH v5 07/17] LoongArch: kexec_file: Fix elf_headers memory leak in retry loop

If load_other_segments() fails after image->elf_headers is assigned,
the memory lifecycle is safely managed by the global kimage object
and will be freed in arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup().

However, during a retry loop in efi_kexec_load(), a subsequent iteration
will allocate a new buffer and overwrite image->elf_headers. This
permanently leaks the stale memory from the previous iteration before
the global cleanup can track it.

Fix this by explicitly freeing the stale `image->elf_headers` buffer
before assigning the newly allocated headers.

Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Youling Tang <redacted>
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <redacted>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260729031235.2840255-1-ruanjinjie%40huawei.com
Fixes: 55d990f0084c ("LoongArch: Add EFI binary support for kexec_file")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <redacted>

Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!

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