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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-05-07 12:18:40 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-05-11 13:31:53 +0100
commit8b6f4caeaf234f9f614722cc37a41e8653523471 (patch)
treec676186c48b3230052e5cec39fa9ccb676ceffdb
parentc18e153703d57ad0372d691530feb9779cd28285 (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 08151d4de489..961c1a788c61 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 f45dbc18dd17..d250f807fd83 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 1581ff235c7e..26fd9d12f050 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) \
({ \