linux-toradex.git/mm/kmemleak.c, branch v3.2.73

mm: kmemleak: allow safe memory scanning during kmemleak disabling

2015-08-12T14:33:17+00:00

commit c5f3b1a51a591c18c8b33983908e7fdda6ae417e upstream.

The kmemleak scanning thread can run for minutes.  Callbacks like
kmemleak_free() are allowed during this time, the race being taken care
of by the object->lock spinlock.  Such lock also prevents a memory block
from being freed or unmapped while it is being scanned by blocking the
kmemleak_free() -> ...  -> __delete_object() function until the lock is
released in scan_object().

When a kmemleak error occurs (e.g.  it fails to allocate its metadata),
kmemleak_enabled is set and __delete_object() is no longer called on
freed objects.  If kmemleak_scan is running at the same time,
kmemleak_free() no longer waits for the object scanning to complete,
allowing the corresponding memory block to be freed or unmapped (in the
case of vfree()).  This leads to kmemleak_scan potentially triggering a
page fault.

This patch separates the kmemleak_free() enabling/disabling from the
overall kmemleak_enabled nob so that we can defer the disabling of the
object freeing tracking until the scanning thread completed.  The
kmemleak_free_part() is deliberately ignored by this patch since this is
only called during boot before the scanning thread started.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Reported-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan 
Tested-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop changes to kmemleak_free_percpu()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects

2014-08-06T17:07:42+00:00

commit 7f88f88f83ed609650a01b18572e605ea50cd163 upstream.

Commit 248ac0e1943a ("mm/vmalloc: remove guard page from between vmap
blocks") had the side effect of making vmap_area.va_end member point to
the next vmap_area.va_start.  This was creating an artificial reference
to vmalloc'ed objects and kmemleak was rarely reporting vmalloc() leaks.

This patch marks the vmap_area containing pointers explicitly and
reduces the min ref_count to 2 as vm_struct still contains a reference
to the vmalloc'ed object.  The kmemleak add_scan_area() function has
been improved to allow a SIZE_MAX argument covering the rest of the
object (for simpler calling sites).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h

2011-10-31T13:20:12+00:00

The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL
macro variants.  They are not using core modular infrastructure
and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

atomic: use

2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00

This allows us to move duplicated code in 
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to 

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kmemleak: Do not return a pointer to an object that kmemleak did not get

2011-05-19T16:35:28+00:00

The kmemleak_seq_next() function tries to get an object (and increment
its use count) before returning it. If it could not get the last object
during list traversal (because it may have been freed), the function
should return NULL rather than a pointer to such object that it did not
get.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Reported-by: Phil Carmody 
Acked-by: Phil Carmody 
Cc:

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

kmemleak: Allow kmemleak metadata allocations to fail

2011-01-27T18:32:06+00:00

This patch adds __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOMEMALLOC flags to the kmemleak
metadata allocations so that it has a smaller effect on the users of the
kernel slab allocator. Since kmemleak allocations can now fail more
often, this patch also reduces the verbosity by passing __GFP_NOWARN and
not dumping the stack trace when a kmemleak allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Reported-by: Toralf Förster 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Ted Ts'o

kmemleak: Fix typo in the comment

2010-08-08T20:57:23+00:00

Fix typo in comment.

Signed-off-by: Holger Hans Peter Freyther 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

kmemleak: Add DocBook style comments to kmemleak.c

2010-07-19T10:54:17+00:00

The description and parameters of the kmemleak API weren't obvious. This
patch adds comments clarifying the API usage.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg

kmemleak: Introduce a default off mode for kmemleak

2010-07-19T10:54:17+00:00

Introduce a new DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF config parameter that allows
kmemleak to be disabled by default, but enabled on the command line
via: kmemleak=on. Although a reboot is required to turn it on, its still
useful to not require a re-compile.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg