linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Annotate false positive in init_section_page

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Message-Id: <20100716081333.01efcc83.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:13:33 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Adrien Dessemond <adrien.dessemond@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Annotate false positive in
 init_section_page_cgroup()

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:01:17 +0100
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:

> The pointer to the page_cgroup table allocated in
> init_section_page_cgroup() is stored in section->page_cgroup as (base -
> pfn). Since this value does not point to the beginning or inside the
> allocated memory block, kmemleak reports a false positive.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Reported-by: Adrien Dessemond <adrien.dessemond@...il.com>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

Thank you!.
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

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