[PATCH kernel] powerpc/xive: Ignore kmemleak false positives

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Fri Jun 12 14:33:03 AEST 2020


xive_native_provision_pages() allocates memory and passes the pointer to
OPAL so kmemleak cannot find the pointer usage in the kernel memory and
produces a false positive report (below) (even if the kernel did scan
OPAL memory, it is unable to deal with __pa() addresses anyway).

This silences the warning.

unreferenced object 0xc000200350c40000 (size 65536):
  comm "qemu-system-ppc", pid 2725, jiffies 4294946414 (age 70776.530s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    02 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....P...........
    01 00 08 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<0000000081ff046c>] xive_native_alloc_vp_block+0x120/0x250
    [<00000000d555d524>] kvmppc_xive_compute_vp_id+0x248/0x350 [kvm]
    [<00000000d69b9c9f>] kvmppc_xive_connect_vcpu+0xc0/0x520 [kvm]
    [<000000006acbc81c>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x308/0x580 [kvm]
    [<0000000089c69580>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x19c/0xae0 [kvm]
    [<00000000902ae91e>] ksys_ioctl+0x184/0x1b0
    [<00000000f3e68bd7>] sys_ioctl+0x48/0xb0
    [<0000000001b2c127>] system_call_exception+0x124/0x1f0
    [<00000000d2b2ee40>] system_call_common+0xe8/0x214

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
---

Does kmemleak actually check the OPAL memory? Because if it did, we
would still have a warning as kmemleak does not trace __pa() addresses
anyway.
---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c
index 71b881e554fc..cb58ec7ce77a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 
 #include <asm/machdep.h>
 #include <asm/prom.h>
@@ -647,6 +648,7 @@ static bool xive_native_provision_pages(void)
 			pr_err("Failed to allocate provisioning page\n");
 			return false;
 		}
+		kmemleak_ignore(p);
 		opal_xive_donate_page(chip, __pa(p));
 	}
 	return true;
-- 
2.17.1



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