Since commit e2a1256b17b1 ("x86/speculation: Restore speculation related MSRs during S3 resume"),
kmemleak reports this issue:
unreferenced object 0xffff888009cedc00 (size 256):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294693823 (age 73.764s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........H.......
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
msr_build_context (include/linux/slab.h:621)
pm_check_save_msr (arch/x86/power/cpu.c:520)
do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1298)
kernel_init_freeable (init/main.c:1370)
kernel_init (init/main.c:1504)
ret_from_fork (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304)
It is easy to reproduce it on my side:
- boot the VM with a debug kernel config (see the 'Closes:' tag)
- wait ~1 minute
- start a kmemleak scan
It seems kmemleak has an issue with the array allocated in
msr_build_context(). This array is assigned to a pointer in a static
structure (saved_context.saved_msrs->array): there is no leak then.
A simple fix for this issue would be to use kmemleak_no_leak() but Mat
noticed that the root cause here is alignment within the packed 'struct
saved_context' (from suspend_64.h). Kmemleak only searches for pointers
that are aligned (see how pointers are scanned in kmemleak.c), but
pahole shows that the saved_msrs struct member and all members after it
in the structure are unaligned:
struct saved_context {
struct pt_regs regs; /* 0 168 */
/* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) was 40 bytes ago --- */
u16 ds; /* 168 2 */
u16 es; /* 170 2 */
u16 fs; /* 172 2 */
u16 gs; /* 174 2 */
long unsigned int kernelmode_gs_base; /* 176 8 */
long unsigned int usermode_gs_base; /* 184 8 */
/* --- cacheline 3 boundary (192 bytes) --- */
long unsigned int fs_base; /* 192 8 */
long unsigned int cr0; /* 200 8 */
long unsigned int cr2; /* 208 8 */
long unsigned int cr3; /* 216 8 */
long unsigned int cr4; /* 224 8 */
u64 misc_enable; /* 232 8 */
bool misc_enable_saved; /* 240 1 */
/* Note below odd offset values for the remainder of this struct */
struct saved_msrs saved_msrs; /* 241 16 */
/* --- cacheline 4 boundary (256 bytes) was 1 bytes ago --- */
long unsigned int efer; /* 257 8 */
u16 gdt_pad; /* 265 2 */
struct desc_ptr gdt_desc; /* 267 10 */
u16 idt_pad; /* 277 2 */
struct desc_ptr idt; /* 279 10 */
u16 ldt; /* 289 2 */
u16 tss; /* 291 2 */
long unsigned int tr; /* 293 8 */
long unsigned int safety; /* 301 8 */
long unsigned int return_address; /* 309 8 */
/* size: 317, cachelines: 5, members: 25 */
/* last cacheline: 61 bytes */
} __attribute__((__packed__));
By moving 'misc_enable_saved' to the end of the struct declaration,
'saved_msrs' fits in before the cacheline 4 boundary and the kmemleak
warning goes away.
The comment above the 'saved_context' declaration says to check
wakeup_64.S file and __save/__restore_processor_state() if the struct is
modified: it looks like it's the members before 'misc_enable' that must
be carefully placed.
At the end, the false positive kmemleak report is due to a limitation
from kmemleak but that's always good to avoid unaligned member for
optimisation purposes.
Please note that it looks like this issue is not new, e.g.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/9f1bb619-c4ee-21c4-a251-870bd4db04fa@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/94e48fcd-1dbd-ebd2-4c91-f39941735909@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
But on my side, msr_build_context() is only used since:
commit e2a1256b17b1 ("x86/speculation: Restore speculation related MSRs during S3 resume").
Others probably have the same issue since:
commit 7a9c2dd08ead ("x86/pm: Introduce quirk framework to save/restore extra MSR registers around suspend/resume"),
Hence the 'Fixes' tag here below to help with the backports.
Fixes: 7a9c2dd08ead ("x86/pm: Introduce quirk framework to save/restore extra MSR registers around suspend/resume")
Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/268
Suggested-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_32.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h | 12 ++++++++----
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_32.h
index 7b132d0312eb..a800abb1a992 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_32.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_32.h
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ struct saved_context {
u16 gs;
unsigned long cr0, cr2, cr3, cr4;
u64 misc_enable;
- bool misc_enable_saved;
struct saved_msrs saved_msrs;
struct desc_ptr gdt_desc;
struct desc_ptr idt;
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@ struct saved_context {
unsigned long tr;
unsigned long safety;
unsigned long return_address;
+ bool misc_enable_saved;
} __attribute__((packed));
/* routines for saving/restoring kernel state */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h
index 35bb35d28733..bb7023dbf524 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h
@@ -14,9 +14,13 @@
* Image of the saved processor state, used by the low level ACPI suspend to
* RAM code and by the low level hibernation code.
*
- * If you modify it, fix arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S and make sure that
- * __save/__restore_processor_state(), defined in arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c,
- * still work as required.
+ * If you modify it before 'misc_enable', fix arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
+ * and make sure that __save/__restore_processor_state(), defined in
+ * arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c, still work as required.
+ *
+ * Because the structure is packed, make sure to avoid unaligned members. For
+ * optimisations purposes but also because tools like Kmemleak only search for
+ * pointers that are aligned.
*/
struct saved_context {
struct pt_regs regs;
@@ -36,7 +40,6 @@ struct saved_context {
unsigned long cr0, cr2, cr3, cr4;
u64 misc_enable;
- bool misc_enable_saved;
struct saved_msrs saved_msrs;
unsigned long efer;
u16 gdt_pad; /* Unused */
@@ -48,6 +51,7 @@ struct saved_context {
unsigned long tr;
unsigned long safety;
unsigned long return_address;
+ bool misc_enable_saved;
} __attribute__((packed));
#define loaddebug(thread,register) \
--
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