4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ Upstream commit 92d1d07daad65c300c7d0b68bbef8867e9895d54 ]
Kmemleak throws endless warnings during boot due to in __alloc_alien_cache(),
alc = kmalloc_node(memsize, gfp, node); init_arraycache(&alc->ac, entries, batch); kmemleak_no_scan(ac);
Kmemleak does not track the array cache (alc->ac) but the alien cache (alc) instead, so let it track the latter by lifting kmemleak_no_scan() out of init_arraycache().
There is another place that calls init_arraycache(), but alloc_kmem_cache_cpus() uses the percpu allocation where will never be considered as a leak.
kmemleak: Found object by alias at 0xffff8007b9aa7e38 CPU: 190 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc2+ #2 Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x168 show_stack+0x24/0x30 dump_stack+0x88/0xb0 lookup_object+0x84/0xac find_and_get_object+0x84/0xe4 kmemleak_no_scan+0x74/0xf4 setup_kmem_cache_node+0x2b4/0x35c __do_tune_cpucache+0x250/0x2d4 do_tune_cpucache+0x4c/0xe4 enable_cpucache+0xc8/0x110 setup_cpu_cache+0x40/0x1b8 __kmem_cache_create+0x240/0x358 create_cache+0xc0/0x198 kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x158/0x20c kmem_cache_create+0x50/0x64 fsnotify_init+0x58/0x6c do_one_initcall+0x194/0x388 kernel_init_freeable+0x668/0x688 kernel_init+0x18/0x124 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 kmemleak: Object 0xffff8007b9aa7e00 (size 256): kmemleak: comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294697137 kmemleak: min_count = 1 kmemleak: count = 0 kmemleak: flags = 0x1 kmemleak: checksum = 0 kmemleak: backtrace: kmemleak_alloc+0x84/0xb8 kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x31c/0x3a0 __kmalloc_node+0x58/0x78 setup_kmem_cache_node+0x26c/0x35c __do_tune_cpucache+0x250/0x2d4 do_tune_cpucache+0x4c/0xe4 enable_cpucache+0xc8/0x110 setup_cpu_cache+0x40/0x1b8 __kmem_cache_create+0x240/0x358 create_cache+0xc0/0x198 kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x158/0x20c kmem_cache_create+0x50/0x64 fsnotify_init+0x58/0x6c do_one_initcall+0x194/0x388 kernel_init_freeable+0x668/0x688 kernel_init+0x18/0x124 kmemleak: Not scanning unknown object at 0xffff8007b9aa7e38 CPU: 190 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc2+ #2 Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x168 show_stack+0x24/0x30 dump_stack+0x88/0xb0 kmemleak_no_scan+0x90/0xf4 setup_kmem_cache_node+0x2b4/0x35c __do_tune_cpucache+0x250/0x2d4 do_tune_cpucache+0x4c/0xe4 enable_cpucache+0xc8/0x110 setup_cpu_cache+0x40/0x1b8 __kmem_cache_create+0x240/0x358 create_cache+0xc0/0x198 kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x158/0x20c kmem_cache_create+0x50/0x64 fsnotify_init+0x58/0x6c do_one_initcall+0x194/0x388 kernel_init_freeable+0x668/0x688 kernel_init+0x18/0x124 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129184518.39808-1-cai@lca.pw Fixes: 1fe00d50a9e8 ("slab: factor out initialization of array cache") Signed-off-by: Qian Cai cai@lca.pw Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Christoph Lameter cl@linux.com Cc: Pekka Enberg penberg@kernel.org Cc: David Rientjes rientjes@google.com Cc: Joonsoo Kim iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Cc: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- mm/slab.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 354a09deecff..d2c0499c6b15 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -566,14 +566,6 @@ static void start_cpu_timer(int cpu)
static void init_arraycache(struct array_cache *ac, int limit, int batch) { - /* - * The array_cache structures contain pointers to free object. - * However, when such objects are allocated or transferred to another - * cache the pointers are not cleared and they could be counted as - * valid references during a kmemleak scan. Therefore, kmemleak must - * not scan such objects. - */ - kmemleak_no_scan(ac); if (ac) { ac->avail = 0; ac->limit = limit; @@ -589,6 +581,14 @@ static struct array_cache *alloc_arraycache(int node, int entries, struct array_cache *ac = NULL;
ac = kmalloc_node(memsize, gfp, node); + /* + * The array_cache structures contain pointers to free object. + * However, when such objects are allocated or transferred to another + * cache the pointers are not cleared and they could be counted as + * valid references during a kmemleak scan. Therefore, kmemleak must + * not scan such objects. + */ + kmemleak_no_scan(ac); init_arraycache(ac, entries, batchcount); return ac; } @@ -683,6 +683,7 @@ static struct alien_cache *__alloc_alien_cache(int node, int entries,
alc = kmalloc_node(memsize, gfp, node); if (alc) { + kmemleak_no_scan(alc); init_arraycache(&alc->ac, entries, batch); spin_lock_init(&alc->lock); }