From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
The following memory leak is false postive:
unreferenced object 0xffff8f37f156fb38 (size 128):
comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294899665 (age 11.292s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
00 00 00 00 30 00 20 00 48 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b ....0. .Hkkkkkkk
backtrace:
[<000000004fda266a>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x10d/0x141
[<000000007b0a7e3c>] __krealloc+0x45/0x62
[<00000000d08e0bfb>] nf_ct_ext_add+0xdc/0x133
[<0000000099b47fd8>] init_conntrack+0x1b1/0x392
[<0000000086dc36ec>] nf_conntrack_in+0x1ee/0x34b
[<00000000940592de>] nf_hook_slow+0x36/0x95
[<00000000d1bd4da7>] nf_hook.constprop.43+0x1c3/0x1dd
[<00000000c3673266>] __ip_local_out+0xae/0xb4
[<000000003e4192a6>] ip_local_out+0x17/0x33
[<00000000b64356de>] igmp_ifc_timer_expire+0x23e/0x26f
[<000000006a8f3032>] call_timer_fn+0x14c/0x2a5
[<00000000650c1725>] __run_timers.part.34+0x150/0x182
[<0000000090e6946e>] run_timer_softirq+0x2a/0x4c
[<000000004d1e7293>] __do_softirq+0x1d1/0x3c2
[<000000004643557d>] irq_exit+0x53/0xa2
[<0000000029ddee8f>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x22a/0x235
because __krealloc() is not supposed to release the old
memory and it is released later via kfree_rcu(). Since this is
the only external user of __krealloc(), just mark it as not leak
here.
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
index 9fe0ddc333fb..bd71a828ebde 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ void *nf_ct_ext_add(struct nf_conn *ct, enum nf_ct_ext_id id, gfp_t gfp)
rcu_read_unlock();
alloc = max(newlen, NF_CT_EXT_PREALLOC);
+ kmemleak_not_leak(old);
new = __krealloc(old, alloc, gfp);
if (!new)
return NULL;
--
2.11.0
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