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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2009-08-27 17:50:00 +0400
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-09-04 19:05:55 +0400
commit8e019366ba749a536131cde1947af6dcaccf8e8f (patch)
treefc44a33fc43265652b93f6f3251d5a73cda2e5ee /mm
parentacde31dc467797ccae3a55b791a77af446cce018 (diff)
downloadlinux-8e019366ba749a536131cde1947af6dcaccf8e8f.tar.xz
kmemleak: Don't scan uninitialized memory when kmemcheck is enabled
Ingo Molnar reported the following kmemcheck warning when running both kmemleak and kmemcheck enabled: PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7 WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (f6f6e1a4) d873f9f600000000c42ae4c1005c87f70000000070665f666978656400000000 i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u ^ Pid: 3091, comm: kmemleak Not tainted (2.6.31-rc7-tip #1303) P4DC6 EIP: 0060:[<c110301f>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 0 EIP is at scan_block+0x3f/0xe0 EAX: f40bd700 EBX: f40bd780 ECX: f16b46c0 EDX: 00000001 ESI: f6f6e1a4 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f10f3f4c ESP: c2605fcc DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 CR0: 8005003b CR2: e89a4844 CR3: 30ff1000 CR4: 000006f0 DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400 [<c110313c>] scan_object+0x7c/0xf0 [<c1103389>] kmemleak_scan+0x1d9/0x400 [<c1103a3c>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4c/0xb0 [<c10819d4>] kthread+0x74/0x80 [<c10257db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x3c [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff kmemleak: 515 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) kmemleak: 42 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) The problem here is that kmemleak will scan partially initialized objects that makes kmemcheck complain. Fix that up by skipping uninitialized memory regions when kmemcheck is enabled. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/kmemleak.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 1d7645b0a97c..c494fee7a2b5 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/kmemcheck.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
/*
@@ -967,15 +968,22 @@ static void scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
unsigned long *end = _end - (BYTES_PER_POINTER - 1);
for (ptr = start; ptr < end; ptr++) {
- unsigned long flags;
- unsigned long pointer = *ptr;
struct kmemleak_object *object;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ unsigned long pointer;
if (allow_resched)
cond_resched();
if (scan_should_stop())
break;
+ /* don't scan uninitialized memory */
+ if (!kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized((unsigned long)ptr,
+ BYTES_PER_POINTER))
+ continue;
+
+ pointer = *ptr;
+
object = find_and_get_object(pointer, 1);
if (!object)
continue;