* Qi Hou <qi.hou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [180110 20:54]: > When more than one GP timers are used as kernel system timers and the > corresponding nodes in device-tree are marked with the same "disabled" > property, then the "attr" field of the property will be initialized > more than once as the property being added to sys file system via > __of_add_property_sysfs(). > > In __of_add_property_sysfs(), the "name" field of pp->attr.attr is set > directly to the return value of safe_name(), without taking care of > whether it's already a valid pointer to a memory block. If it is, its > old value will always be overwritten by the new one and the memory block > allocated before will a "ghost", then a kmemleak happened. > > That the same "disabled" property being added to different nodes of device > tree would cause that kind of kmemleak overhead, at leat once. > > To fix it, allocate the property dynamically, and delete static one. Thanks applying into omap-for-v4.16/fixes. Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
