Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: introduce __GFP_TRACKLEAK to track in-kernel allocation

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On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 7:49 PM Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
<vbabka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/26/22 08:40, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> > From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Kthread and drivers could fetch memory via alloc_pages directly which make them
> > hard to debug when leaking. Solve this by introducing __GFP_TRACELEAK and reuse
> > kmemleak mechanism which unified most of kernel cosuming pages into kmemleak.
>
> Can you expand how exactly this is expected to be used? So you first have to
> suspect some concrete allocation and add __GFP_TRACKLEAK to it?
It could be used to investigate suspicious drivers or kthread which
may introduce in-kernel leak during debug phase by enabling kmemleak.
This can be done via page owner things now. I would like to unified it
together with slab leak into kmemleak.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/gfp.h        | 4 +++-
> >  include/linux/page-flags.h | 3 +++
> >  mm/kmemleak.c              | 2 +-
> >  mm/page_alloc.c            | 6 ++++++
> >  4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> > index 2d2ccae..081ab54 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> > @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
> >  #else
> >  #define ___GFP_NOLOCKDEP     0
> >  #endif
> > +#define ___GFP_TRACKLEAK     0x10000000u
> >  /* If the above are modified, __GFP_BITS_SHIFT may need updating */
> >
> >  /*
> > @@ -259,12 +260,13 @@
> >  #define __GFP_SKIP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_SKIP_ZERO)
> >  #define __GFP_SKIP_KASAN_UNPOISON ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_SKIP_KASAN_UNPOISON)
> >  #define __GFP_SKIP_KASAN_POISON   ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_SKIP_KASAN_POISON)
> > +#define __GFP_TRACKLEAK   ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_TRACKLEAK)
> >
> >  /* Disable lockdep for GFP context tracking */
> >  #define __GFP_NOLOCKDEP ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOLOCKDEP)
> >
> >  /* Room for N __GFP_FOO bits */
> > -#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT (27 + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LOCKDEP))
> > +#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT (28 + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LOCKDEP))
> >  #define __GFP_BITS_MASK ((__force gfp_t)((1 << __GFP_BITS_SHIFT) - 1))
> >
> >  /**
> > diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> > index e66f7aa..ef0f814 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> > @@ -942,6 +942,7 @@ static inline bool is_page_hwpoison(struct page *page)
> >  #define PG_offline   0x00000100
> >  #define PG_table     0x00000200
> >  #define PG_guard     0x00000400
> > +#define PG_trackleak 0x00000800
> >
> >  #define PageType(page, flag)                                         \
> >       ((page->page_type & (PAGE_TYPE_BASE | flag)) == PAGE_TYPE_BASE)
> > @@ -1012,6 +1013,8 @@ static inline int page_has_type(struct page *page)
> >   */
> >  PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Guard, guard)
> >
> > +PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Trackleak, trackleak)
> > +
> >  extern bool is_free_buddy_page(struct page *page);
> >
> >  PAGEFLAG(Isolated, isolated, PF_ANY);
> > diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
> > index 422f28f..a182f5d 100644
> > --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
> > +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
> > @@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
> >                       if (page_zone(page) != zone)
> >                               continue;
> >                       /* only scan if page is in use */
> > -                     if (page_count(page) == 0 || PageReserved(page))
> > +                     if (page_count(page) == 0)
> >                               continue;
> >                       scan_block(page, page + 1, NULL);
> >                       if (!(pfn & 63))
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index e008a3d..d8995c6 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -1361,6 +1361,8 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
> >               page->mapping = NULL;
> >       if (memcg_kmem_enabled() && PageMemcgKmem(page))
> >               __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page(page, order);
> > +     if (PageTrackleak(page))
> > +             kmemleak_free(page);
> >       if (check_free)
> >               bad += check_free_page(page);
> >       if (bad)
> > @@ -5444,6 +5446,10 @@ struct page *__alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
> >               __free_pages(page, order);
> >               page = NULL;
> >       }
> > +     if (gfp & __GFP_TRACKLEAK) {
> > +             kmemleak_alloc(page_address(page), PAGE_SIZE << order, 1, gfp & ~__GFP_TRACKLEAK);
> > +             __SetPageTrackleak(page);
> > +     }
> >
> >       trace_mm_page_alloc(page, order, alloc_gfp, ac.migratetype);
> >
>




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