From: Chen Jun <chenjun102@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f25667e5980a4333729cac3101e5de1bb851f71a ] Doing the command: echo 'hist:key=common_pid.execname,common_timestamp' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/xxx/trigger Triggers many kmemleak reports: unreferenced object 0xffff0000c7ea4980 (size 128): comm "bash", pid 338, jiffies 4294912626 (age 9339.324s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000f3469921>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x4c0/0x6f0 [<0000000054ca40c3>] hist_trigger_elt_data_alloc+0x140/0x178 [<00000000633bd154>] tracing_map_init+0x1f8/0x268 [<000000007e814ab9>] event_hist_trigger_func+0xca0/0x1ad0 [<00000000bf8520ed>] trigger_process_regex+0xd4/0x128 [<00000000f549355a>] event_trigger_write+0x7c/0x120 [<00000000b80f898d>] vfs_write+0xc4/0x380 [<00000000823e1055>] ksys_write+0x74/0xf8 [<000000008a9374aa>] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30 [<0000000087124017>] do_el0_svc+0x88/0x1c0 [<00000000efd0dcd1>] el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 [<00000000dbfba9b3>] el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xc0 [<00000000e7399680>] el0_sync+0x148/0x180 unreferenced object 0xffff0000c7ea4980 (size 128): comm "bash", pid 338, jiffies 4294912626 (age 9339.324s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000f3469921>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x4c0/0x6f0 [<0000000054ca40c3>] hist_trigger_elt_data_alloc+0x140/0x178 [<00000000633bd154>] tracing_map_init+0x1f8/0x268 [<000000007e814ab9>] event_hist_trigger_func+0xca0/0x1ad0 [<00000000bf8520ed>] trigger_process_regex+0xd4/0x128 [<00000000f549355a>] event_trigger_write+0x7c/0x120 [<00000000b80f898d>] vfs_write+0xc4/0x380 [<00000000823e1055>] ksys_write+0x74/0xf8 [<000000008a9374aa>] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30 [<0000000087124017>] do_el0_svc+0x88/0x1c0 [<00000000efd0dcd1>] el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 [<00000000dbfba9b3>] el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xc0 [<00000000e7399680>] el0_sync+0x148/0x180 The reason is elts->pages[i] is alloced by get_zeroed_page. and kmemleak will not scan the area alloced by get_zeroed_page. The address stored in elts->pages will be regarded as leaked. That is, the elts->pages[i] will have pointers loaded onto it as well, and without telling kmemleak about it, those pointers will look like memory without a reference. To fix this, call kmemleak_alloc to tell kmemleak to scan elts->pages[i] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124140801.87121-1-chenjun102@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/tracing_map.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c b/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c index d63e51dde0d24..51a9d1185033b 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c +++ b/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include <linux/jhash.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/sort.h> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h> #include "tracing_map.h" #include "trace.h" @@ -307,6 +308,7 @@ static void tracing_map_array_free(struct tracing_map_array *a) for (i = 0; i < a->n_pages; i++) { if (!a->pages[i]) break; + kmemleak_free(a->pages[i]); free_page((unsigned long)a->pages[i]); } @@ -342,6 +344,7 @@ static struct tracing_map_array *tracing_map_array_alloc(unsigned int n_elts, a->pages[i] = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); if (!a->pages[i]) goto free; + kmemleak_alloc(a->pages[i], PAGE_SIZE, 1, GFP_KERNEL); } out: return a; -- 2.33.0