linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] trace: Fix a kmemleak noise

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Date:   Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:48:20 +0000
From:   "chenjun (AM)" <chenjun102@...wei.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "Xiangrui (Euler)" <rui.xiang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trace: Fix a kmemleak noise

在 2021/11/24 23:16, Steven Rostedt 写道:
Hi

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:08:01 +0000
> Chen Jun <chenjun102@...wei.com> wrote:
> 
>> The reason is elts->pages[i] is alloced by get_zeroed_page.
>> and kmemleak will not scan the area alloced by get_zeroed_page.
>> The address stored in elts->pages will be regarded as leaked.
> 
> Why doesn't kmemleak scan get_zeroed_page? And if that's the case, how does
> all the other locations in the kernel that call get_zeroed_page handle this?
> I think in most cases, the page do not contain pointers. But I am not 
sure. Maybe we should better ask Catalin.

In block/blk-mq.c
blk_mq_alloc_rqs
.
   page = alloc_pages_node(node,..
.
   p = page_address(page);
   /*$
    * Allow kmemleak to scan these pages as they contain pointers
    * to additional allocations like via ops->init_request().
    */$
   kmemleak_alloc(p, order_to_size(this_order), 1, GFP_NOIO);

In lib/scatterlist.c
static struct scatterlist *sg_kmalloc(unsigned int nents, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
   if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC) {
   /*
    * Kmemleak doesn't track page allocations as they are not
    * commonly used (in a raw form) for kernel data structures.
    * As we chain together a list of pages and then a normal
    * kmalloc (tracked by kmemleak), in order to for that last
    * allocation not to become decoupled (and thus a
    * false-positive) we need to inform kmemleak of all the
    * intermediate allocations.
    */
    void *ptr = (void *) __get_free_page(gfp_mask);
    kmemleak_alloc(ptr, PAGE_SIZE, 1, gfp_mask);
    return ptr;
.

> -- Steve
> 


-- 
Regards
Chen Jun