linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 11/13] kmemleak: disable kasan instrumentation for kmemleak

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Message-ID: <CACT4Y+aJ9htaruQ1Nn7+MSGwtNzRb_hfytQo98J1wq5N6oh1BA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:10:01 -0700
From:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:	Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@...sung.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@...il.com>,
	Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@...il.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/13] kmemleak: disable kasan instrumentation for kmemleak

Looks good to me.

We can disable kasan instrumentation of this file as well.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@...sung.com> wrote:
> kmalloc internally round up allocation size, and kmemleak
> uses rounded up size as object's size. This makes kasan
> to complain while kmemleak scans memory or calculates of object's
> checksum. The simplest solution here is to disable kasan.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@...sung.com>
> ---
>  mm/kmemleak.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
> index 3cda50c..9bda1b3 100644
> --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
> +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@
>  #include <asm/processor.h>
>  #include <linux/atomic.h>
>
> +#include <linux/kasan.h>
>  #include <linux/kmemcheck.h>
>  #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
>  #include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
> @@ -1113,7 +1114,10 @@ static bool update_checksum(struct kmemleak_object *object)
>         if (!kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized(object->pointer, object->size))
>                 return false;
>
> +       kasan_disable_local();
>         object->checksum = crc32(0, (void *)object->pointer, object->size);
> +       kasan_enable_local();
> +
>         return object->checksum != old_csum;
>  }
>
> @@ -1164,7 +1168,9 @@ static void scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
>                                                   BYTES_PER_POINTER))
>                         continue;
>
> +               kasan_disable_local();
>                 pointer = *ptr;
> +               kasan_enable_local();
>
>                 object = find_and_get_object(pointer, 1);
>                 if (!object)
> --
> 2.1.1
>
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