We currently get the following kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xffff8800039d9820 (size 32): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4295212383 (age 792.416s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 0c e0 03 00 88 ff ff ff 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 01 ff 11 00 02 86 dd 00 00 ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff8152b4aa>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 [<ffffffff811d8ec8>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xb8/0x1c0 [<ffffffffa0389683>] __br_mdb_notify+0x2a3/0x300 [bridge] [<ffffffffa038a0ce>] br_mdb_notify+0x6e/0x70 [bridge] [<ffffffffa0386479>] br_multicast_add_group+0x109/0x150 [bridge] [<ffffffffa0386518>] br_ip6_multicast_add_group+0x58/0x60 [bridge] [<ffffffffa0387fb5>] br_multicast_rcv+0x1d5/0xdb0 [bridge] [<ffffffffa037d7cf>] br_handle_frame_finish+0xcf/0x510 [bridge] [<ffffffffa03a236b>] br_nf_hook_thresh.part.27+0xb/0x10 [br_netfilter] [<ffffffffa03a3738>] br_nf_hook_thresh+0x48/0xb0 [br_netfilter] [<ffffffffa03a3fb9>] br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x109/0x1d0 [br_netfilter] [<ffffffffa03a4400>] br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0xd0/0x14c [br_netfilter] [<ffffffffa03a3c27>] br_nf_pre_routing+0x197/0x3d0 [br_netfilter] [<ffffffff814a2952>] nf_iterate+0x52/0x60 [<ffffffff814a29bc>] nf_hook_slow+0x5c/0xb0 [<ffffffffa037ddf4>] br_handle_frame+0x1a4/0x2c0 [bridge] This patch flags the complete_info ptr object as not a leak as it will get freed when .complete_priv() is called, for the br mdb case, it will be freed at br_mdb_complete(). Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.9+ Reviewed-by: Vallish Vaidyeshwara <vallish@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c index b084548..1c81546 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ #include <linux/rculist.h> #include <linux/skbuff.h> #include <linux/if_ether.h> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h> #include <net/ip.h> #include <net/netlink.h> #include <net/switchdev.h> @@ -319,6 +320,8 @@ static void __br_mdb_notify(struct net_device *dev, struct net_bridge_port *p, if (port_dev && type == RTM_NEWMDB) { complete_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*complete_info), GFP_ATOMIC); if (complete_info) { + /* This pointer is freed in br_mdb_complete() */ + kmemleak_not_leak(complete_info); complete_info->port = p; __mdb_entry_to_br_ip(entry, &complete_info->ip); mdb.obj.complete_priv = complete_info; -- 2.7.4