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Commit 94f4a161 authored by Catalin Marinas's avatar Catalin Marinas Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects



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: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: default avatar"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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 04f70d13
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