Re: [PATCH 1/1] kmemleak/module: only scan the existed data section

From: tiejun.chen
Date: Sun Jan 08 2012 - 19:59:27 EST


Tiejun Chen wrote:
> We should only scan the sections containing data and it's size is not
> zero as well.

Catalin,

Could you take a look at this?

Thanks
Tiejun

>
> Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/module.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index 12cfa2b..0b93c30 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -2045,6 +2045,8 @@ static void kmemleak_load_module(struct module *mod, Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
> if (strncmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name, ".data", 5) != 0
> && strncmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name, ".bss", 4) != 0)
> continue;
> + if (sechdrs[i].sh_size == 0)
> + continue;
>
> kmemleak_scan_area((void *)sechdrs[i].sh_addr,
> sechdrs[i].sh_size, GFP_KERNEL);

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