diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 9c7aef8f4bb6..b5e40f069768 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -19,26 +19,9 @@
 
 #include "kexec_internal.h"
 
-static int copy_user_segment_list(struct kimage *image,
-				  unsigned long nr_segments,
-				  struct kexec_segment __user *segments)
-{
-	int ret;
-	size_t segment_bytes;
-
-	/* Read in the segments */
-	image->nr_segments = nr_segments;
-	segment_bytes = nr_segments * sizeof(*segments);
-	ret = copy_from_user(image->segment, segments, segment_bytes);
-	if (ret)
-		ret = -EFAULT;
-
-	return ret;
-}
-
 static int kimage_alloc_init(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
 			     unsigned long nr_segments,
-			     struct kexec_segment __user *segments,
+			     struct kexec_segment *segments,
 			     unsigned long flags)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -58,10 +41,8 @@ static int kimage_alloc_init(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	image->start = entry;
-
-	ret = copy_user_segment_list(image, nr_segments, segments);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out_free_image;
+	image->nr_segments = nr_segments;
+	memcpy(image->segment, segments, nr_segments * sizeof(*segments));
 
 	if (kexec_on_panic) {
 		/* Enable special crash kernel control page alloc policy. */
@@ -104,7 +85,7 @@ static int kimage_alloc_init(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
 }
 
 static int do_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
-		struct kexec_segment __user *segments, unsigned long flags)
+		struct kexec_segment *segments, unsigned long flags)
 {
 	struct kimage **dest_image, *image;
 	unsigned long i;
@@ -250,7 +231,8 @@ static inline int kexec_load_check(unsigned long nr_segments,
 SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments,
 		struct kexec_segment __user *, segments, unsigned long, flags)
 {
-	int result;
+	struct kexec_segment *ksegments;
+	unsigned long result;
 
 	result = kexec_load_check(nr_segments, flags);
 	if (result)
@@ -261,7 +243,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments,
 		((flags & KEXEC_ARCH_MASK) != KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	result = do_kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, segments, flags);
+	ksegments = memdup_user(segments, nr_segments * sizeof(ksegments[0]));
+	if (IS_ERR(ksegments))
+		return PTR_ERR(ksegments);
+
+	result = do_kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, ksegments, flags);
+	kfree(ksegments);
 
 	return result;
 }
@@ -273,7 +260,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, compat_ulong_t, entry,
 		       compat_ulong_t, flags)
 {
 	struct compat_kexec_segment in;
-	struct kexec_segment out, __user *ksegments;
+	struct kexec_segment *ksegments;
 	unsigned long i, result;
 
 	result = kexec_load_check(nr_segments, flags);
@@ -286,24 +273,26 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, compat_ulong_t, entry,
 	if ((flags & KEXEC_ARCH_MASK) == KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	ksegments = compat_alloc_user_space(nr_segments * sizeof(out));
+	ksegments = kmalloc_array(nr_segments, sizeof(ksegments[0]),
+			GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ksegments)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_segments; i++) {
 		result = copy_from_user(&in, &segments[i], sizeof(in));
 		if (result)
-			return -EFAULT;
+			goto fail;
 
-		out.buf   = compat_ptr(in.buf);
-		out.bufsz = in.bufsz;
-		out.mem   = in.mem;
-		out.memsz = in.memsz;
-
-		result = copy_to_user(&ksegments[i], &out, sizeof(out));
-		if (result)
-			return -EFAULT;
+		ksegments[i].buf   = compat_ptr(in.buf);
+		ksegments[i].bufsz = in.bufsz;
+		ksegments[i].mem   = in.mem;
+		ksegments[i].memsz = in.memsz;
 	}
 
 	result = do_kexec_load(entry, nr_segments, ksegments, flags);
 
+fail:
+	kfree(ksegments);
 	return result;
 }
 #endif