In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

riscv: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in machine_kexec_prepare()

A NULL pointer dereference issue is noticed in riscv's
machine_kexec_prepare(), where image->segment[i].buf might be NULL and
copied unchecked.

The NULL buf comes from ima_add_kexec_buffer(), where kbuf is added by
kexec_add_buffer(), but kbuf.buffer is NULL, then it is copied without
a check in machine_kexec_prepare():

  kexec_file_load
    -> kimage_file_alloc_init()
       -> kimage_file_prepare_segments()
          -> ima_add_kexec_buffer()
             -> kexec_add_buffer()
    -> machine_kexec_prepare()
       -> memcpy()

Address this by adding a check before the data copy attempt.