Re: [PATCH 4/4] kmemcheck v4

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Thu Feb 14 2008 - 15:31:43 EST


On 2/14/08, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> > index 412672a..7bdb37f 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> > @@ -1294,7 +1294,11 @@ static inline void __skb_queue_purge(struct
> > sk_buff_head *list)
> > static inline struct sk_buff *__dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int length,
> > gfp_t gfp_mask)
> > {
> > - struct sk_buff *skb = alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask);
> > + struct sk_buff *skb;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
> > + gfp_mask |= __GFP_ZERO;
> > +#endif
>
>
> Use __GFP_NOTRACK here (no need to wrap it in CONFIG_KMEMCHECK either).
>
> > + skb = alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask);
>
> > if (likely(skb))
> > skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
> > return skb;
>
>
> > diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
> > index f865731..87b1b0f 100644
> > --- a/init/do_mounts.c
> > +++ b/init/do_mounts.c
> > @@ -201,9 +201,13 @@ static int __init do_mount_root(char *name, char
> > *fs, int flags, void *data)
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > +#if PAGE_SIZE < PATH_MAX
> > +# error increase the fs_names allocation size here
> > +#endif
> > +
> > void __init mount_block_root(char *name, int flags)
> > {
> > - char *fs_names = __getname();
> > + char *fs_names = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 1);
> > char *p;
> > #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
> > char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
> > @@ -251,7 +255,7 @@ retry:
> > #endif
> > panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", b);
> > out:
> > - putname(fs_names);
> > + free_pages((unsigned long)fs_names, 1);
>
>
> As discussed before, I don't think kmemcheck should be complaining about
> this (even though this is a potential bug). Have you tried with the
> current patches to see if it still triggers? Could have been one of the
> kmemcheck bugs, no?
>
>
> > @@ -255,6 +258,9 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device
> > *dev,
> > int node = dev->dev.parent ? dev_to_node(dev->dev.parent) : -1;
> > struct sk_buff *skb;
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
> > + gfp_mask |= __GFP_ZERO;
> > +#endif
>
>
> __GFP_NOTRACK here
>
>
> Pekka
>

Will fix those, thanks!


Vegard
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