Re: Several suspected memory leaks

[Michael Ellerman]

Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 00:40, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 17:17 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
>> > On a the IBM S822LC (8335-GTA) with Ubuntu 18.04 I built Linux master
>> > â 4.18-rc4+, commit 092150a2 (Merge branch 'for-linus'
>> > of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid) â with
>> > kmemleak. Several issues are found.
>>
>> Some of these are completely uninteresting though and look like
>> kmemleak bugs to me :-)
>>
>> >     [<00000000bc285bbf>] __pud_alloc+0x80/0x270
>> >     [<0000000007135d64>] hash__map_kernel_page+0x30c/0x4d0
>> >     [<0000000071677858>] __ioremap_at+0x108/0x140
>> >     [<000000000023e921>] __ioremap_caller+0x130/0x180
>> >     [<000000009dbc3923>] icp_native_init_one_node+0x5cc/0x760
>> >     [<0000000015f3168a>] icp_native_init+0x70/0x13c
>> >     [<00000000655550ed>] xics_init+0x38/0x1ac
>> >     [<0000000088dbf9d1>] pnv_init_IRQ+0x30/0x5c
>>
>> This is the interrupt controller mapping its registers, why on earth
>> would that be considered a leak ? kmemleak needs to learn to ignore
>> kernel page tables allocations.
>
> Indeed, that's just a false positive for powerpc. Kmemleak ignores
> page allocations and most architectures use __get_free_pages() for the
> page table. In this particular case, the powerpc code uses
> kmem_cache_alloc() and that's tracked by kmemleak. Since the pgd
> stores the __pa(pud), kmemleak doesn't detect this pointer and reports
> it as a leak. To work around this, you can pass SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE to
> kmem_cache_create() in pgtable_cache_add()

Ah thanks, I didn't know we could do it that way.

I did this instead which seems to work:

  https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/a984506c542e


cheers