linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] kmemleak: account for tagged pointers when calculating pointer range

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Message-ID: <1550072210.6911.28.camel@lca.pw>
Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:36:50 -0500
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
        Evgeniy Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] kmemleak: account for tagged pointers when
 calculating pointer range

On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 14:58 +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> kmemleak keeps two global variables, min_addr and max_addr, which store
> the range of valid (encountered by kmemleak) pointer values, which it
> later uses to speed up pointer lookup when scanning blocks.
> 
> With tagged pointers this range will get bigger than it needs to be.
> This patch makes kmemleak untag pointers before saving them to min_addr
> and max_addr and when performing a lookup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>