Strings allocated via kmemdup() in nfs_readdir_make_qstr() are referenced from the nfs_cache_array which is stored in a page cache page. Kmemleak does not scan such pages and it reports several false positives. This patch annotates the string->name pointer so that kmemleak does not consider it a real leak. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index 07ac384..a9f9e14 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #include <linux/mount.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/vmalloc.h> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h> #include "delegation.h" #include "iostat.h" @@ -231,6 +232,11 @@ int nfs_readdir_make_qstr(struct qstr *string, const char *name, unsigned int le string->name = kmemdup(name, len, GFP_KERNEL); if (string->name == NULL) return -ENOMEM; + /* + * Avoid a kmemleak false positive. The pointer to the name is stored + * in a page cache page which kmemleak does not scan. + */ + kmemleak_not_leak(string->name); string->hash = full_name_hash(name, len); return 0; } -- 1.7.3.GIT -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
