linux-kernel - Re: Panic on kmemleak scan

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Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:21:38 +0300
From:   Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir.zapolskiy@...aro.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: Panic on kmemleak scan

Hi Mike,

On 10/12/21 9:08 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> (added Catalin)
> 
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 02:23:31PM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>> Hello Mike,
>>
>> commit a7259df767 ("memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private") [1]
>> invokes a kernel panic while running kmemleak on OF platforms with nomaped
>> regions, basically it's similar to an issue reported and fixed earlier by [2]:
>>
>>    Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff000021e00000
> 
> Does this virtual address correspond to a nomap area?

Yes, it does:

   OF: reserved mem: allocated memory for 'rmtfs@...00000' node: base 0x00000000a1e00000, size 2 MiB

and 'rmtfs@...00000' device node has a 'no-map' property.

Also:

# echo dump=0xffff000021e00000 > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
[   35.679096] kmemleak: Object 0xffff000021e00000 (size 2097152):
[   35.679172] kmemleak:   comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294892296
[   35.683860] kmemleak:   min_count = 0
[   35.690106] kmemleak:   count = 0
[   35.693752] kmemleak:   flags = 0x1
[   35.697050] kmemleak:   checksum = 0
[   35.700350] kmemleak:   backtrace:
[   35.704170]      kmemleak_alloc_phys+0x2c/0x40
[   35.707381]      memblock_alloc_range_nid+0x150/0x170
[   35.711810]      memblock_phys_alloc_range+0xb8/0xc8
[   35.716931]      early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch+0x40/0x94
[   35.721968]      __reserved_mem_alloc_size+0x200/0x308
[   35.727955]      fdt_init_reserved_mem+0x154/0x284
[   35.733164]      early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x80/0xfc
[   35.737939]      arm64_memblock_init+0x23c/0x278
[   35.743406]      setup_arch+0x18c/0x228
[   35.748266]      start_kernel+0x94/0x610
[   35.751825]      __primary_switched+0xc0/0xc8

> Can you check if this patch helps:
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> index 184dcd2e5d99..5c3503c98b2f 100644
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -936,7 +936,12 @@ int __init_memblock memblock_mark_mirror(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
>    */
>   int __init_memblock memblock_mark_nomap(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
>   {
> -	return memblock_setclr_flag(base, size, 1, MEMBLOCK_NOMAP);
> +	int ret = memblock_setclr_flag(base, size, 1, MEMBLOCK_NOMAP);
> +
> +	if (!ret)
> +		kmemleak_free_part_phys(base, size);
> +
> +	return ret;
>   }
>   
>   /**
> 

The change fixes the issue, thank you!

The object is also gone from being under kmemleak:

# echo dump=0xffff000021e00000 > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
kmemleak: Unknown object at 0xffff000021e00000

Please feel free to add my

Tested-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir.zapolskiy@...aro.org>

>>    [...]
>>      scan_block+0x64/0x170
>>      scan_gray_list+0xe8/0x17c
>>      kmemleak_scan+0x270/0x514
>>      kmemleak_write+0x34c/0x4ac
>>
>> I believe it would be a trivial problem to correct for you, thank you in
>> advance!
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210816122622.30279-1-rppt@kernel.org/T/#u
>> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190119132832.GA29881@MBP.local/t/#m032124f36c07

--
Best wishes,
Vladimir