Commit 803d690e authored by Christophe Leroy's avatar Christophe Leroy Committed by Michael Ellerman

powerpc/mm: Don't report hugepage tables as memory leaks when using kmemleak

When a process allocates a hugepage, the following leak is
reported by kmemleak. This is a false positive which is
due to the pointer to the table being stored in the PGD
as physical memory address and not virtual memory pointer.

unreferenced object 0xc30f8200 (size 512):
  comm "mmap", pid 374, jiffies 4872494 (age 627.630s)
  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:
    [<e32b68da>] huge_pte_alloc+0xdc/0x1f8
    [<9e0df1e1>] hugetlb_fault+0x560/0x8f8
    [<7938ec6c>] follow_hugetlb_page+0x14c/0x44c
    [<afbdb405>] __get_user_pages+0x1c4/0x3dc
    [<b8fd7cd9>] __mm_populate+0xac/0x140
    [<3215421e>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0xb4/0xb8
    [<c148db69>] ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xcc/0x1fc
    [<4fcd760f>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38

See commit a984506c ("powerpc/mm: Don't report PUDs as
memory leaks when using kmemleak") for detailed explanation.

To fix that, this patch tells kmemleak to ignore the allocated
hugepage table.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 306b1c06
...@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ ...@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/moduleparam.h> #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/swap.h> #include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/swapops.h> #include <linux/swapops.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h> #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h> #include <asm/tlb.h>
...@@ -112,6 +113,8 @@ static int __hugepte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, hugepd_t *hpdp, ...@@ -112,6 +113,8 @@ static int __hugepte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, hugepd_t *hpdp,
for (i = i - 1 ; i >= 0; i--, hpdp--) for (i = i - 1 ; i >= 0; i--, hpdp--)
*hpdp = __hugepd(0); *hpdp = __hugepd(0);
kmem_cache_free(cachep, new); kmem_cache_free(cachep, new);
} else {
kmemleak_ignore(new);
} }
spin_unlock(ptl); spin_unlock(ptl);
return 0; return 0;
......
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