2nd kernel hangs early because of a regression caused by below commit:
commit 68262155d8c661586b809bc5301a7dff1c378137
Author: Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Nov 20 12:31:53 2015 -0500

    kexec/fs2dt: cleanup pathname
    
    putnode() will add the trailing '/', avoid having two. Also
    pathstart is unused, get rid of it.
    
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au>

The actual purpose of the commit is to avoid double slash in pathname.
But unfortunately in function putnode() we have below magics to get the node
name:
        basename = strrchr(pathname,'/') + 1;
        ...
        strcpy((void *)dt, *basename ? basename : "");
        ...
        strcat(pathname, "/");

We treat none zero basename as a node name, then concat a slash to open the
directory for later property handling.
pathname originally was "/proc/device-tree/" so for the first run of putnode
it will cause double slashes. With the commit above mentioned there are no
double slashes but we will copy "device-tree" to dt. Thus kexec kernel is not
happy..

Instead let's fix it by only concating slash when the basenanme is not empty
and restore the initial value of pathname as "/proc/device-tree/"

Note: I only reproduce the issue with loading older kernel like 3.10 in RHEL. I 
do
not see the problem in new kernels in Fedora.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyo...@redhat.com>
---
 kexec/fs2dt.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- kexec-tools.orig/kexec/fs2dt.c
+++ kexec-tools/kexec/fs2dt.c
@@ -577,7 +577,8 @@ static void putnode(void)
        strcpy((void *)dt, *basename ? basename : "");
        dt += ((plen + 4)/4);
 
-       strcat(pathname, "/");
+       if (*basename)
+               strcat(pathname, "/");
        dn = pathname + strlen(pathname);
 
        putprops(dn, namelist, numlist);
@@ -804,7 +805,7 @@ static void add_boot_block(char **bufp,
 
 void create_flatten_tree(char **bufp, off_t *sizep, const char *cmdline)
 {
-       strcpy(pathname, "/proc/device-tree");
+       strcpy(pathname, "/proc/device-tree/");
 
        dt_cur_size = INIT_TREE_WORDS;
        dt_base = malloc(dt_cur_size*4);

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