When rtl8192ce is in operation, kmemleak indicates a number of leaks, yet when the driver is removed all are gone. These false positives happen in two locations: unreferenced object 0xffff880041124000 (size 9536): comm "work_for_cpu", pid 9295, jiffies 4295037203 (age 20596.320s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 33 00 00 01 01 6d 00 00 00 00 b1 0e 21 0b 00 00 3....m......!... 01 01 6d 00 00 00 00 8b 20 c0 e9 00 00 01 01 6d ..m..... ......m backtrace: [<ffffffff8137a1b1>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50 [<ffffffff8138d01f>] kmalloc_large_node+0x9a/0xa6 [<ffffffff811335a5>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x175/0x3b0 [<ffffffff812ddfe3>] __alloc_skb+0x73/0x230 [<ffffffff812de1b8>] dev_alloc_skb+0x18/0x30 [<ffffffffa091a3b7>] rtl_pci_probe+0x10e0/0x17d2 [rtlwifi] -- snip -- unreferenced object 0xffff8800b4d3f600 (size 256): comm "kworker/u:2", pid 13221, jiffies 4297830173 (age 9424.568s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 1c d6 45 b1 00 88 ff ff 1c d6 45 b1 00 88 ff ff ..E.......E..... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff8137a1b1>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50 [<ffffffff81130f43>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x153/0x270 [<ffffffff812ddfb6>] __alloc_skb+0x46/0x230 [<ffffffff812de1b8>] dev_alloc_skb+0x18/0x30 [<ffffffffa093264a>] rtl92c_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt+0x22a/0x5c0 [rtl8192c_common] -- snip -- Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- John, Another patch for 3.5. Larry --- Index: wireless-testing-new/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c =================================================================== --- wireless-testing-new.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c +++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #include "ps.h" #include "efuse.h" #include <linux/export.h> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h> static const u16 pcibridge_vendors[PCI_BRIDGE_VENDOR_MAX] = { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, @@ -1099,6 +1100,7 @@ static int _rtl_pci_init_rx_ring(struct u32 bufferaddress; if (!skb) return 0; + kmemleak_not_leak(skb); entry = &rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].desc[i]; /*skb->dev = dev; */ Index: wireless-testing-new/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192c/fw_common.c =================================================================== --- wireless-testing-new.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192c/fw_common.c +++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192c/fw_common.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #include "../rtl8192ce/def.h" #include "fw_common.h" #include <linux/export.h> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h> static void _rtl92c_enable_fw_download(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, bool enable) { @@ -776,6 +777,8 @@ void rtl92c_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(struct ie skb = dev_alloc_skb(totalpacketlen); if (!skb) return; + kmemleak_not_leak(skb); + memcpy((u8 *) skb_put(skb, totalpacketlen), &reserved_page_packet, totalpacketlen); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html