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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-01-15 16:46:20 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-01-15 16:46:20 +0000
commit5ee5148a8597404c85eb4e57a76cc08ad2fd0e93 (patch)
treec04a07ef6a306082cef14650f6b346a816b0749e /drivers/char
parentb3e4ef8d7d6813f704603b51673bdc45db8f3357 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/vt.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 7900bd63b36d..d299efe7b5ab 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
@@ -2879,6 +2880,12 @@ 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);