linux-kernel - Re: kmemleak for MIPS

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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:58:58 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...il.com>
Cc:	Maxin John <maxin.john@...il.com>,
	naveen yadav <yad.naveen@...il.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: kmemleak for MIPS

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 10:54 +0100, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> >> unreferenced object 0x8f90d000 (size 4096):
> >>   comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294937330 (age 815.000s)
> >>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> >>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >>   backtrace:
> >>     [<80529644>] alloc_large_system_hash+0x2f8/0x410
> >>     [<805383b4>] udp_table_init+0x4c/0x158
> >>     [<805384dc>] udp_init+0x1c/0x94
> >>     [<8053889c>] inet_init+0x184/0x2a0
> >>     [<80100584>] do_one_initcall+0x174/0x1e0
> >>     [<8051f348>] kernel_init+0xe4/0x174
> >>     [<80103d4c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18
> >
> > If you for the kmemleak scan (via echo) a few times, do you get more
> > leaks? The udp_table_init() function looks like it could leak some
> > memory but I haven't seen it before. I'm not sure whether this is a
> > false positive or a real leak.
> 
> Looking again at udp_init_table it seem that a memory leak is possible.
> Could you post your .config and the full output of dmesg after booting.
> 
> A situation where CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is 0, and
> table->mask < UDP_HTABLE_SIZE_MIN - 1 would lead
> to a memory leak.

It's worth printing the table->mask on MIPS as well. I think have the
same configuration on ARM and put some printk's but the table->mask is
set to higher value and the second if condition is false. The checks
could be simply reordered but I don't know the reasoning behind the
current code sequence (I cc'ed Eric).

-- 
Catalin


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