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Commit 730233be authored by Yee Lee's avatar Yee Lee Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Revert "mm: kmemleak: take a full lowmem check in kmemleak_*_phys()"

This reverts commit 23c2d497.

Commit 23c2d497 ("mm: kmemleak: take a full lowmem check in
kmemleak_*_phys()") brought false leak alarms on some archs like arm64
that does not init pfn boundary in early booting. The final solution
lands on linux-6.0: commit 0c24e061

 ("mm: kmemleak: add rbtree and
store physical address for objects allocated with PA").

Revert this commit before linux-6.0. The original issue of invalid PA
can be mitigated by additional check in devicetree.

The false alarm report is as following: Kmemleak output: (Qemu/arm64)
unreferenced object 0xffff0000c0170a00 (size 128):
  comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294892404 (age 126.208s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
 62 61 73 65 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  base............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<(____ptrval____)>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1b0/0x2e4
    [<(____ptrval____)>] kstrdup_const+0x8c/0xc4
    [<(____ptrval____)>] kvasprintf_const+0xbc/0xec
    [<(____ptrval____)>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x58/0xe4
    [<(____ptrval____)>] kobject_add+0x84/0x100
    [<(____ptrval____)>] __of_attach_node_sysfs+0x78/0xec
    [<(____ptrval____)>] of_core_init+0x68/0x104
    [<(____ptrval____)>] driver_init+0x28/0x48
    [<(____ptrval____)>] do_basic_setup+0x14/0x28
    [<(____ptrval____)>] kernel_init_freeable+0x110/0x178
    [<(____ptrval____)>] kernel_init+0x20/0x1a0
    [<(____ptrval____)>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

This pacth is also applicable to linux-5.17.y/linux-5.18.y/linux-5.19.y

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYee Lee <yee.lee@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 758105a4
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