When loading a module, as long as the module has memory allocation
operations, kmemleak produces a false positive report that resembles the
following:
unreferenced object (percpu) 0x7dfd232a1650 (size 16):
comm "modprobe", pid 1301, jiffies 4294940249
hex dump (first 16 bytes on cpu 2):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 0):
kmemleak_alloc_percpu+0xb4/0xd0
pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x700/0x1098
load_module+0xd4/0x348
codetag_module_init+0x20c/0x450
codetag_load_module+0x70/0xb8
load_module+0xef8/0x1608
init_module_from_file+0xec/0x158
idempotent_init_module+0x354/0x608
__arm64_sys_finit_module+0xbc/0x150
invoke_syscall+0xd4/0x258
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb4/0x240
do_el0_svc+0x48/0x68
el0_svc+0x40/0xf8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x10c/0x138
el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
This is because the module can only indirectly reference
alloc_tag_counters through the alloc_tag section, which misleads kmemleak.
However, we don't have a kmemleak ignore interface for percpu allocations
yet. So let's create one and invoke it for tag->counters.
[gehao@kylinos.cn: fix build error when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=n, s/igonore/ignore/]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250620093102.2416767-1-hao.ge@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250619183154.2122608-1-hao.ge@linux.dev
Fixes: 12ca42c237 ("alloc_tag: allocate percpu counters for module tags dynamically")
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <gehao@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> [lib/alloc_tag.c]
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The introduction of iova_depot_pop() in 911aa1245d ("iommu/iova: Make
the rcache depot scale better") confused kmemleak by moving a struct
iova_magazine object from a singly linked list to rcache->depot and
resetting the 'next' pointer referencing it. Unlike doubly linked lists,
the content of the object being referred is never changed on removal from
a singly linked list and the kmemleak checksum heuristics do not detect
such scenario. This leads to false positives like:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881a5301000 (size 1024):
comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4306297099 (age 462.991s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e7 7d 05 00 00 00 00 00 .........}......
0f b4 05 00 00 00 00 00 b4 96 05 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff819f5f08>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e8/0x320
[<ffffffff818a239a>] kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0x60
[<ffffffff8231d31e>] free_iova_fast+0x28e/0x4e0
[<ffffffff82310860>] fq_ring_free_locked+0x1b0/0x310
[<ffffffff8231225d>] fq_flush_timeout+0x19d/0x2e0
[<ffffffff813e95ba>] call_timer_fn+0x19a/0x5c0
[<ffffffff813ea16b>] __run_timers+0x78b/0xb80
[<ffffffff813ea5bd>] run_timer_softirq+0x5d/0xd0
[<ffffffff82f1d915>] __do_softirq+0x205/0x8b5
Introduce kmemleak_transient_leak() which resets the object checksum
requiring another scan pass before it is reported (if still unreferenced).
Call this new API in iova_depot_pop().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104111944.2207155-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZY1osaGLyT-sdKE8@shredder/
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
Tested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
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GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 136 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530000436.384967451@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add sparse-checked slab_flags_t for struct kmem_cache::flags (SLAB_POISON,
etc).
SLAB is bloated temporarily by switching to "unsigned long", but only
temporarily.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171021100225.GA22428@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kmemleak requires that vmalloc'ed objects have a minimum reference count
of 2: one in the corresponding vm_struct object and the other owned by
the vmalloc() caller. There are cases, however, where the original
vmalloc() returned pointer is lost and, instead, a pointer to vm_struct
is stored (see free_thread_stack()). Kmemleak currently reports such
objects as leaks.
This patch adds support for treating any surplus references to an object
as additional references to a specified object. It introduces the
kmemleak_vmalloc() API function which takes a vm_struct pointer and sets
its surplus reference passing to the actual vmalloc() returned pointer.
The __vmalloc_node_range() calling site has been modified accordingly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495726937-23557-4-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some of the kmemleak_*() callbacks in memblock, bootmem, CMA convert a
physical address to a virtual one using __va(). However, such physical
addresses may sometimes be located in highmem and using __va() is
incorrect, leading to inconsistent object tracking in kmemleak.
The following functions have been added to the kmemleak API and they take
a physical address as the object pointer. They only perform the
corresponding action if the address has a lowmem mapping:
kmemleak_alloc_phys
kmemleak_free_part_phys
kmemleak_not_leak_phys
kmemleak_ignore_phys
The affected calling places have been updated to use the new kmemleak
API.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471531432-16503-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The kmemleak_init() definition in mm/kmemleak.c is marked __init but its
prototype in include/linux/kmemleak.h is marked __ref since commit
a6186d89c9 ("kmemleak: Mark the early log buffer as __initdata").
This causes a section mismatch which is reported as a warning when
building with clang -Wsection, because kmemleak_init() is declared in
section .ref.text but defined in .init.text.
Fix this by marking kmemleak_init() prototype __init.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Beginning at commit d52d3997f8 ("ipv6: Create percpu rt6_info"), the
following INFO splat is logged:
===============================
[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1 Not tainted
-------------------------------
kernel/sched/core.c:7318 Illegal context switch in RCU-bh read-side critical section!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
3 locks held by systemd/1:
#0: (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff815f0c8f>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1f/0x40
#1: (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [<ffffffff816a34e2>] ipv6_add_addr+0x62/0x540
#2: (addrconf_hash_lock){+...+.}, at: [<ffffffff816a3604>] ipv6_add_addr+0x184/0x540
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1
Hardware name: TOSHIBA TECRA A50-A/TECRA A50-A, BIOS Version 4.20 04/17/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120
___might_sleep+0x1d5/0x1f0
__might_sleep+0x4d/0x90
kmem_cache_alloc+0x47/0x250
create_object+0x39/0x2e0
kmemleak_alloc_percpu+0x61/0xe0
pcpu_alloc+0x370/0x630
Additional backtrace lines are truncated. In addition, the above splat
is followed by several "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
context at mm/slub.c:1268" outputs. As suggested by Martin KaFai Lau,
these are the clue to the fix. Routine kmemleak_alloc_percpu() always
uses GFP_KERNEL for its allocations, whereas it should follow the gfp
from its callers.
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.18+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/kmemleak.h: In function 'kmemleak_alloc_recursive':
include/linux/kmemleak.h:43: error: 'SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE' undeclared (first use in this function)
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The memory allocation stack trace is not always useful for debugging a
memory leak (e.g. radix_tree_preload). This function, when called,
updates the stack trace for an already allocated object.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds kmemleak callbacks from the percpu allocator, reducing a
number of false positives caused by kmemleak not scanning such memory
blocks. The percpu chunks are never reported as leaks because of current
kmemleak limitations with the __percpu pointer not pointing directly to
the actual chunks.
Reported-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This function was taking non-necessary arguments which can be determined
by kmemleak. The patch also modifies the calling sites.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This buffer isn't needed after kmemleak was initialised so it can be
freed together with the .init.data section. This patch also marks
functions conditionally accessing the early log variables with __ref.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Functions like free_bootmem() are allowed to free only part of a memory
block. This patch adds support for this via the kmemleak_free_part()
callback which removes the original object and creates one or two
additional objects as a result of the memory block split.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
This patch adds the base support for the kernel memory leak
detector. It traces the memory allocation/freeing in a way similar to
the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that
the unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
overhead to memory allocations.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
