linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block_dev: Suppress bdev_cache

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Date:	Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:03:16 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block_dev: Suppress bdev_cache_init() kmemleak warninig

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:44:36AM +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:

> due to attempt to mark pointer to `struct vfsmount' as a gray object, which
> is embedded into `struct mount' returned from alloc_vfsmnt(). Pass actual
> allocated `struct mount' pointer to kmemleak_not_leak() instead.

*snort*

how about turning bd_mnt into a static instead and to hell with messing with
annotations?  It's not like one word of .bss was worth those convolutions...
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