linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: alloc gray object for reserved region with direct map.

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Date:   Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:17:53 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Calvin Zhang <calvinzhang.cool@...il.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: alloc gray object for reserved region with
 direct map.

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 05:06:41PM +0800, Calvin Zhang wrote:
> Reserved regions with direct mapping may contain references to other
> regions. CMA region with fixed location is reserved without creating
> kmemleak_object for it.
> 
> So add them as gray kmemleak objects.

Do you get any kmemleak false positives without this patch? It would be
good to include them in the commit message.

Without seeing a false positive caused by this, I'm not convinced it is
the right approach. You mentioned CMA but telling kmemleak about the
whole CMA region is a pretty big hammer. I'd rather add individual
kmemleak_alloc_*() calls in cma_alloc().

-- 
Catalin