linux-kernel - Re: [kmemleak] unreferenced object 0xcd9c1a80 (size 192):

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Date:   Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:54:02 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
Subject: Re: [kmemleak] unreferenced object 0xcd9c1a80 (size 192):

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 7:24 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org> wrote:
> Alexei,
>
> Could you please comment on why I am seeing those memleaks being
> reported on my ppc32 system ? Should they be marked as false positive
> ?
>
> System is Mac Mini G4, git/master (4.15.0+), ppc.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> $ dmesg
> ...
> [ 1281.504173] kmemleak: 36 new suspected memory leaks (see
> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
>
> Where:
>
> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> unreferenced object 0xdee25000 (size 192):
>   comm "systemd", pid 1, jiffies 4294894348 (age 1438.580s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     c0 56 2f 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 0c  .V/.............
>     00 00 00 08 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<6c69baf5>] trie_alloc+0xb0/0x150
>     [<fa093284>] SyS_bpf+0x288/0x1458
>     [<82182f53>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38
> unreferenced object 0xdee25900 (size 192):
>   comm "systemd", pid 1, jiffies 4294894540 (age 1437.812s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     c0 56 2f 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 08  .V/.............
>     00 00 00 08 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<6c69baf5>] trie_alloc+0xb0/0x150
>     [<fa093284>] SyS_bpf+0x288/0x1458
>     [<82182f53>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38

hmm. looks real. Is there a reproducer?
Yonghong, lpm map not cleaning after itself?