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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-06-11 13:24:13 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-06-11 17:04:18 +0100
commit2e1483c995bbd0fa6cbd055ad76088a520799ba4 (patch)
tree4b555ae3452a80e3cebd7adcab83b019d1ca1b60
parent4f2294b6dc88d99295230d97fef2c9863cec44c3 (diff)
kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but they are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them. For more information on false positives, see Documentation/kmemleak.txt. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/vt.c7
-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c6
-rw-r--r--include/linux/percpu.h5
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 08151d4de48..961c1a788c6 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#define MAX_NR_CON_DRIVER 16
@@ -2880,6 +2881,12 @@ static int __init con_init(void)
*/
for (currcons = 0; currcons < MIN_NR_CONSOLES; currcons++) {
vc_cons[currcons].d = vc = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct vc_data));
+ /*
+ * Kmemleak does not track the memory allocated via
+ * alloc_bootmem() but this block contains pointers to
+ * other blocks allocated via kmalloc.
+ */
+ kmemleak_alloc(vc, sizeof(struct vc_data), 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
INIT_WORK(&vc_cons[currcons].SAK_work, vc_SAK);
visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
vc->vc_screenbuf = (unsigned short *)alloc_bootmem(vc->vc_screenbuf_size);
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index f45dbc18dd1..d250f807fd8 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#include <linux/uio.h>
#include <linux/namei.h>
#include <linux/log2.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include "internal.h"
@@ -492,6 +493,11 @@ void __init bdev_cache_init(void)
bd_mnt = kern_mount(&bd_type);
if (IS_ERR(bd_mnt))
panic("Cannot create bdev pseudo-fs");
+ /*
+ * This vfsmount structure is only used to obtain the
+ * blockdev_superblock, so tell kmemleak not to report it.
+ */
+ kmemleak_not_leak(bd_mnt);
blockdev_superblock = bd_mnt->mnt_sb; /* For writeback */
}
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index 1581ff235c7..26fd9d12f05 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -86,7 +86,12 @@ struct percpu_data {
void *ptrs[1];
};
+/* pointer disguising messes up the kmemleak objects tracking */
+#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
#define __percpu_disguise(pdata) (struct percpu_data *)~(unsigned long)(pdata)
+#else
+#define __percpu_disguise(pdata) (struct percpu_data *)(pdata)
+#endif
#define per_cpu_ptr(ptr, cpu) \
({ \