linux-kernel - [for-linus][PATCH 2/2] tracing: Fix a kmemleak false positive in tracing

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Message-ID: <20211201151135.492678049@goodmis.org>
Date:   Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:10:01 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Chen Jun <chenjun102@...wei.com>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 2/2] tracing: Fix a kmemleak false positive in tracing_map

From: Chen Jun <chenjun102@...wei.com>

Doing the command:
  echo 'hist:key=common_pid.execname,common_timestamp' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/xxx/trigger

Triggers many kmemleak reports:

unreferenced object 0xffff0000c7ea4980 (size 128):
  comm "bash", pid 338, jiffies 4294912626 (age 9339.324s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000f3469921>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x4c0/0x6f0
    [<0000000054ca40c3>] hist_trigger_elt_data_alloc+0x140/0x178
    [<00000000633bd154>] tracing_map_init+0x1f8/0x268
    [<000000007e814ab9>] event_hist_trigger_func+0xca0/0x1ad0
    [<00000000bf8520ed>] trigger_process_regex+0xd4/0x128
    [<00000000f549355a>] event_trigger_write+0x7c/0x120
    [<00000000b80f898d>] vfs_write+0xc4/0x380
    [<00000000823e1055>] ksys_write+0x74/0xf8
    [<000000008a9374aa>] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
    [<0000000087124017>] do_el0_svc+0x88/0x1c0
    [<00000000efd0dcd1>] el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
    [<00000000dbfba9b3>] el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xc0
    [<00000000e7399680>] el0_sync+0x148/0x180
unreferenced object 0xffff0000c7ea4980 (size 128):
  comm "bash", pid 338, jiffies 4294912626 (age 9339.324s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000f3469921>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x4c0/0x6f0
    [<0000000054ca40c3>] hist_trigger_elt_data_alloc+0x140/0x178
    [<00000000633bd154>] tracing_map_init+0x1f8/0x268
    [<000000007e814ab9>] event_hist_trigger_func+0xca0/0x1ad0
    [<00000000bf8520ed>] trigger_process_regex+0xd4/0x128
    [<00000000f549355a>] event_trigger_write+0x7c/0x120
    [<00000000b80f898d>] vfs_write+0xc4/0x380
    [<00000000823e1055>] ksys_write+0x74/0xf8
    [<000000008a9374aa>] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
    [<0000000087124017>] do_el0_svc+0x88/0x1c0
    [<00000000efd0dcd1>] el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
    [<00000000dbfba9b3>] el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xc0
    [<00000000e7399680>] el0_sync+0x148/0x180

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.

That is, the elts->pages[i] will have pointers loaded onto it as well, and
without telling kmemleak about it, those pointers will look like memory
without a reference.

To fix this, call kmemleak_alloc to tell kmemleak to scan elts->pages[i]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124140801.87121-1-chenjun102@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/tracing_map.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c b/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c
index 39bb56d2dcbe..9628b5571846 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/jhash.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/sort.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 
 #include "tracing_map.h"
 #include "trace.h"
@@ -307,6 +308,7 @@ static void tracing_map_array_free(struct tracing_map_array *a)
 	for (i = 0; i < a->n_pages; i++) {
 		if (!a->pages[i])
 			break;
+		kmemleak_free(a->pages[i]);
 		free_page((unsigned long)a->pages[i]);
 	}
 
@@ -342,6 +344,7 @@ static struct tracing_map_array *tracing_map_array_alloc(unsigned int n_elts,
 		a->pages[i] = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!a->pages[i])
 			goto free;
+		kmemleak_alloc(a->pages[i], PAGE_SIZE, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	}
  out:
 	return a;
-- 
2.33.0