2011/9/27 Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@xxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 05:32:54PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Le lundi 26 septembre 2011 à 23:17 +0800, Huajun Li a écrit :
>> > Memory leak detector gives following memory leak report, it seems the
>> > report is triggered by net/core/flow.c, but actually, it should be a
>> > false positive report.
>> > So, is there any idea from kmemleak side to fix/disable this false
>> > positive report like this?
>> > Yes, kmemleak_not_leak(...) could disable it, but is it suitable for this case ?
> ...
>> CC lkml and percpu maintainers (Tejun Heo & Christoph Lameter ) as well
>>
>> AFAIK this false positive only occurs if percpu data is allocated
>> outside of embedded pcu space.
>>
>> (grep pcpu_get_vm_areas /proc/vmallocinfo)
>>
>> I suspect this is a percpu/kmemleak cooperation problem (a missing
>> kmemleak_alloc() ?)
>>
>> I am pretty sure kmemleak_not_leak() is not the right answer to this
>> problem.
>
> kmemleak_not_leak() definitely not the write answer. The alloc_percpu()
> call does not have any kmemleak_alloc() callback, so it doesn't scan
> them.
>
> Huajun, could you please try the patch below:
>
> 8<--------------------------------
> kmemleak: Handle percpu memory allocation
>
> From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
>
> This patch adds kmemleak callbacks from the percpu allocator, reducing a
> number of false positives caused by kmemleak not scanning such memory
> blocks.
>
> Reported-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/percpu.c | 11 +++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
> index bf80e55..c47a90b 100644
> --- a/mm/percpu.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu.c
> @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
> #include <linux/spinlock.h>
> #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> #include <linux/workqueue.h>
> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
>
> #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> #include <asm/sections.h>
> @@ -833,7 +834,9 @@ fail_unlock_mutex:
> */
> void __percpu *__alloc_percpu(size_t size, size_t align)
> {
> - return pcpu_alloc(size, align, false);
> + void __percpu *ptr = pcpu_alloc(size, align, false);
> + kmemleak_alloc(ptr, size, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> + return ptr;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__alloc_percpu);
>
> @@ -855,7 +858,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__alloc_percpu);
> */
> void __percpu *__alloc_reserved_percpu(size_t size, size_t align)
> {
> - return pcpu_alloc(size, align, true);
> + void __percpu *ptr = pcpu_alloc(size, align, true);
> + kmemleak_alloc(ptr, size, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> + return ptr;
> }
>
> /**
> @@ -915,6 +920,8 @@ void free_percpu(void __percpu *ptr)
> if (!ptr)
> return;
>
> + kmemleak_free(ptr);
> +
> addr = __pcpu_ptr_to_addr(ptr);
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags);
>
> --
> Catalin
>
Applied the patch and found following msg after system boot up :
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
[ 48.040027] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 69.240960] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000000001d7270
[ 69.241010] IP: [<ffffffff81256c62>] scan_block+0x62/0x220
[ 69.241045] PGD 5f289067 PUD 5f292067 PMD 0
[ 69.241074] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 69.241098] CPU 0
[ 69.241110] Modules linked in: binfmt_misc dm_crypt
snd_hda_codec_analog snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec usbhid hid snd_hwdep
snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi i915 snd_seq_midi_event hp_wmi ppdev
sparse_keymap snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device ehci_hcd uhci_hcd
drm_kms_helper usbcore tpm_infineon psmouse snd e1000e drm serio_raw
soundcore tpm_tis snd_page_alloc tpm floppy tpm_bios parport_pc
i2c_algo_bit video lp parport
[ 69.249303]
[ 69.250246] Pid: 47, comm: kmemleak Tainted: G I
3.1.0-rc7+ #24 Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq dc7800p Convertible
Minitower/0AACh
[ 69.250246] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81256c62>] [<ffffffff81256c62>]
scan_block+0x62/0x220
[ 69.250246] RSP: 0018:ffff880073f69d90 EFLAGS: 00010012
[ 69.250246] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880078750858 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 69.250246] RDX: ffff880078750858 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 00000000001d7270
[ 69.250246] RBP: ffff880073f69dd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 69.250246] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8800787508b8
[ 69.250246] R13: 00000000001d7270 R14: 00000000001d7431 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 69.250246] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007a200000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 69.250246] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 69.250246] CR2: 00000000001d7270 CR3: 000000006d735000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[ 69.250246] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 69.250246] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 69.250246] Process kmemleak (pid: 47, threadinfo ffff880073f68000,
task ffff880073e4a460)
[ 69.250246] Stack:
[ 69.250246] ffff880073f69dd0 ffffffff8194b49a ffffffff81256ed1
ffff880078750858
[ 69.250246] ffff8800787508b8 00000000001d8270 00000000001d7438
0000000000000206
[ 69.250246] ffff880073f69e10 ffffffff8125702a 000000000007d2af
ffffffff81e0d120
[ 69.250246] Call Trace:
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff8194b49a>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xfa/0x110
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff81256ed1>] ? scan_gray_list+0xb1/0x280
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff8125702a>] scan_gray_list+0x20a/0x280
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff8125787a>] kmemleak_scan+0x44a/0xbd0
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff81257430>] ? kmemleak_do_cleanup+0x210/0x210
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff81258630>] ? kmemleak_write+0x630/0x630
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff812586bf>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x8f/0x150
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff810dc4e6>] kthread+0xe6/0x100
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff8195a4c4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff8194ac50>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x50/0x80
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff8194b874>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff810dc400>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x80/0x80
[ 69.250246] [<ffffffff8195a4c0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
[ 69.250246] Code: 00 00 e9 d2 01 00 00 66 90 e8 ab f4 ff ff 48 83
05 33 ef 06 02 01 85 c0 0f 85 bb 01 00 00 48 83 05 2b ef 06 02 01 be
01 00 00 00
[ 69.250246] 8b 7d 00 e8 c5 fc ff ff 48 85 c0 49 89 c4 0f 84 69 01 00 00
[ 69.250246] RIP [<ffffffff81256c62>] scan_block+0x62/0x220
[ 69.250246] RSP <ffff880073f69d90>
[ 69.250246] CR2: 00000000001d7270
[ 69.360917] ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a727 ]---
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