Re: [PATCH] efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()"

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Hi.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 04:50:34PM +0000, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> On 25/11/2020 10:28, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 11:27, Oleksandr Natalenko
> > <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 25.11.2020 08:53, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> --snip--
> >>
> >> Do we need to do this as well:
> >>
> >> #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
> >>
> >> ?
> >>
> >> Because otherwise for 5.9 I get:
> >>
> >> [  148s] fs/efivarfs/inode.c: In function 'efivarfs_create':
> >> [  148s] fs/efivarfs/inode.c:106:2: error: implicit declaration of
> >> function 'kmemleak_ignore' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> >> [  148s]   106 |  kmemleak_ignore(var);
> >> [  148s]       |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> > 
> > Ah yes, thanks for the report. I will add the include to the patch.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Is this necessary if CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK is not enabled in the kernel
> config? e.g. should there be an #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK somewhere
> in there?

kmemleak_ignore() is a noop if CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK is not set. See
include/linux/kmemleak.h. Thus no extra condition is needed here.

-- 
  Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)



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