linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH] efi: let kmemleak ignore false positives

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Message-ID: <trinity-73766f32-cf87-4bcd-a655-9eaa40b9ee9c-1544185959983@msvc-mesg-gmx023>
Date:   Fri, 7 Dec 2018 13:32:40 +0100
From:   "Qian Cai" <cai@....us>
To:     "Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Marc Zyngier" <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] efi: let kmemleak ignore false positives


On 12/7/18 at 6:28 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 19:05, Qian Cai <cai@....us> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 19:01 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 19:00, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:16:33AM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
> > > > > unreferenced object 0xffff8096c1acf580 (size 128):
> > > > >   comm "swapper/63", pid 0, jiffies 4294937418 (age 1201.230s)
> > > > >   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> > > > >     80 87 b5 c1 96 00 00 00 00 00 cc c2 16 00 00 00  ................
> > > > >     00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  ........kkkkkkkk
> > > > >   backtrace:
> > > > >     [<000000001d2549ba>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x430/0x500
> > > > >     [<0000000093a6dfab>] efi_mem_reserve_persistent+0x50/0xf8
> > > > >     [<000000000a730828>] its_cpu_init_lpis+0x394/0x4b8
> > > > >     [<00000000edf04e07>] its_cpu_init+0x104/0x150
> > > > >     [<000000004d0342c5>] gic_starting_cpu+0x34/0x40
> > > > >     [<000000005d9da772>] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x228/0x1d68
> > > > >     [<0000000061eace9b>] notify_cpu_starting+0xc0/0x118
> > > > >     [<0000000048bc2dc5>] secondary_start_kernel+0x23c/0x3b0
> > > > >     [<0000000015137d6a>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> > > > >
> > > > > efi_mem_reserve_persistent+0x50/0xf8:
> > > > > kmalloc at include/linux/slab.h:546
> > > > > (inlined by) efi_mem_reserve_persistent at drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:979
> > > > >
> > > > > This line,
> > > > >
> > > > > rsv = kmalloc(sizeof(*rsv), GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > > >
> > > > > Kmemleak has a known limitation that can only track pointers in the kernel
> > > > > virtual space. Hence, it will report false positives due to "rsv" will
> > > > > only
> > > > > reference to other physical addresses,
> > > > >
> > > > > rsv->next = efi_memreserve_root->next;
> > > > > efi_memreserve_root->next = __pa(rsv);
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@....us>
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>\
> > >
> > > I don't see the patch and I wasn't cc'ed
> >
> > That is strange. Please see,
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1543517152-23969-1-git-send-email-cai@gmx.us/
> 
> OK, I found it in my spam folder, apologies for that.
> 
> This kmalloc() will be replaced in the next merge window by a call to
> __get_free_page(). Does kmemleak still require the kmemleak_ignore()
> for that case? Or is it only for kmalloc()?

Looks like kmemleak won’t be able to track page
allocation, so it should be fine then without 
kmemleak_ignore().