diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
index 8415ae7d2a23..f9e4baa64b67 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static int kexec_file_add_initrd(struct kimage *image,
 		buf.mem += crashk_res.start;
 	buf.memsz = buf.bufsz;
 
-	data->parm->initrd_start = buf.mem;
+	data->parm->initrd_start = data->memsz;
 	data->parm->initrd_size = buf.memsz;
 	data->memsz += buf.memsz;