kmemleak detects leak in msr_build_context

From: Paul Menzel
Date: Tue Jan 11 2022 - 02:49:38 EST


Dear Linux folks,


Running Linux from commit bf4eebf8cfa2 (Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest), kmemleak reported the leak below:

```
unreferenced object 0xffff8914823de500 (size 64):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294667581 (age 1253.406s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 10 01 c0 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<000000007f3b05e9>] __kmalloc+0x177/0x330
[<0000000008104cca>] msr_build_context.constprop.0+0x32/0xbe
[<00000000012bab4e>] msr_save_cpuid_features+0x28/0x2f
[<00000000b7a2262e>] pm_check_save_msr+0x2e/0x40
[<00000000cbe9d92d>] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x200
[<0000000094deab7b>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1fc/0x273
[<00000000d3dbaa56>] kernel_init+0x16/0x160
[<0000000058c4a8b3>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
```


Kind regards,

Paul