From 04e4bd1c67f941d81bff78a3b6b94194f081b7df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:53:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] nfs: Ignore kmemleak false positive in nfs_readdir_make_qstr Strings allocated via kmemdup() in nfs_readdir_make_qstr() are referenced from the nfs_cache_array which is stored in a page cache page. Kmemleak does not scan such pages and it reports several false positives. This patch annotates the string->name pointer so that kmemleak does not consider it a real leak. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: Bryan Schumaker Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index c9196c9..662df2a 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "delegation.h" #include "iostat.h" @@ -238,6 +239,11 @@ int nfs_readdir_make_qstr(struct qstr *string, const char *name, unsigned int le string->name = kmemdup(name, len, GFP_KERNEL); if (string->name == NULL) return -ENOMEM; + /* + * Avoid a kmemleak false positive. The pointer to the name is stored + * in a page cache page which kmemleak does not scan. + */ + kmemleak_not_leak(string->name); string->hash = full_name_hash(name, len); return 0; } -- 2.7.4