1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
index 5b5e9cb774b5..ff808ef4fdb4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@
  * analysis of kexec-tools; if other broken bootloaders initialize a
  * different set of fields we will need to figure out how to disambiguate.
  *
+ * Note: efi_info is commonly left uninitialized, but that field has a
+ * private magic, so it is better to leave it unchanged.
  */
 static void sanitize_boot_params(struct boot_params *boot_params)
 {
         if (boot_params->sentinel) {
                 /*fields in boot_params are not valid, clear them */
                 memset(&boot_params->olpc_ofw_header, 0,
-                       (char *)&boot_params->alt_mem_k -
+                       (char *)&boot_params->efi_info -
                         (char *)&boot_params->olpc_ofw_header);
                 memset(&boot_params->kbd_status, 0,
                        (char *)&boot_params->hdr -