linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 008/124] powerpc/mm: Dont report hugepage tables as memory leaks when using kmemleak

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Message-Id: <20181119162614.607102173@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:27:42 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 008/124] powerpc/mm: Dont report hugepage tables as memory leaks when using kmemleak

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>

[ Upstream commit 803d690e68f0c5230183f1a42c7d50a41d16e380 ]

When a process allocates a hugepage, the following leak is
reported by kmemleak. This is a false positive which is
due to the pointer to the table being stored in the PGD
as physical memory address and not virtual memory pointer.

unreferenced object 0xc30f8200 (size 512):
  comm "mmap", pid 374, jiffies 4872494 (age 627.630s)
  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:
    [<e32b68da>] huge_pte_alloc+0xdc/0x1f8
    [<9e0df1e1>] hugetlb_fault+0x560/0x8f8
    [<7938ec6c>] follow_hugetlb_page+0x14c/0x44c
    [<afbdb405>] __get_user_pages+0x1c4/0x3dc
    [<b8fd7cd9>] __mm_populate+0xac/0x140
    [<3215421e>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0xb4/0xb8
    [<c148db69>] ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xcc/0x1fc
    [<4fcd760f>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38

See commit a984506c542e2 ("powerpc/mm: Don't report PUDs as
memory leaks when using kmemleak") for detailed explanation.

To fix that, this patch tells kmemleak to ignore the allocated
hugepage table.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 #include <linux/swapops.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/tlb.h>
@@ -110,6 +111,8 @@ static int __hugepte_alloc(struct mm_str
 		for (i = i - 1 ; i >= 0; i--, hpdp--)
 			*hpdp = __hugepd(0);
 		kmem_cache_free(cachep, new);
+	} else {
+		kmemleak_ignore(new);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 	return 0;