From b88cc37a8208d17a0298ec5c0c5bd519435aefee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 17:46:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] rcu: kmemleak: Ignore kmemleak false positives when RCU-freeing objects commit 5f98fd034ca6fd1ab8c91a3488968a0e9caaabf6 upstream. Since the actual slab freeing is deferred when calling kvfree_rcu(), so is the kmemleak_free() callback informing kmemleak of the object deletion. From the perspective of the kvfree_rcu() caller, the object is freed and it may remove any references to it. Since kmemleak does not scan RCU internal data storing the pointer, it will report such objects as leaks during the grace period. Tell kmemleak to ignore such objects on the kvfree_call_rcu() path. Note that the tiny RCU implementation does not have such issue since the objects can be tracked from the rcu_ctrlblk structure. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Reported-by: Christoph Paasch Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/F903A825-F05F-4B77-A2B5-7356282FBA2C@apple.com/ Cc: Tested-by: Christoph Paasch Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/rcu/tree.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index d85779f..7b4517d 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -3400,6 +3401,14 @@ void kvfree_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, void *ptr) success = true; } + /* + * The kvfree_rcu() caller considers the pointer freed at this point + * and likely removes any references to it. Since the actual slab + * freeing (and kmemleak_free()) is deferred, tell kmemleak to ignore + * this object (no scanning or false positives reporting). + */ + kmemleak_ignore(ptr); + // Set timer to drain after KFREE_DRAIN_JIFFIES. if (rcu_scheduler_active == RCU_SCHEDULER_RUNNING) schedule_delayed_monitor_work(krcp); -- 2.7.4