Re: [RESEND PATCH] efi: let kmemleak ignore false positives

[Qian Cai]

On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 19:01 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 19:00, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:16:33AM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
> > > unreferenced object 0xffff8096c1acf580 (size 128):
> > > Â comm "swapper/63", pid 0, jiffies 4294937418 (age 1201.230s)
> > > Â hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> > > ÂÂÂÂ80 87 b5 c1 96 00 00 00 00 00 cc c2 16 00 00 00ÂÂ................
> > > ÂÂÂÂ00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6bÂÂ........kkkkkkkk
> > > Â backtrace:
> > > ÂÂÂÂ[<000000001d2549ba>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x430/0x500
> > > ÂÂÂÂ[<0000000093a6dfab>] efi_mem_reserve_persistent+0x50/0xf8
> > > ÂÂÂÂ[<000000000a730828>] its_cpu_init_lpis+0x394/0x4b8
> > > ÂÂÂÂ[<00000000edf04e07>] its_cpu_init+0x104/0x150
> > > ÂÂÂÂ[<000000004d0342c5>] gic_starting_cpu+0x34/0x40
> > > ÂÂÂÂ[<000000005d9da772>] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x228/0x1d68
> > > ÂÂÂÂ[<0000000061eace9b>] notify_cpu_starting+0xc0/0x118
> > > ÂÂÂÂ[<0000000048bc2dc5>] secondary_start_kernel+0x23c/0x3b0
> > > ÂÂÂÂ[<0000000015137d6a>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> > > 
> > > efi_mem_reserve_persistent+0x50/0xf8:
> > > kmalloc at include/linux/slab.h:546
> > > (inlined by) efi_mem_reserve_persistent at drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:979
> > > 
> > > This line,
> > > 
> > > rsv = kmalloc(sizeof(*rsv), GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > 
> > > Kmemleak has a known limitation that can only track pointers in the kernel
> > > virtual space. Hence, it will report false positives due to "rsv" will
> > > only
> > > reference to other physical addresses,
> > > 
> > > rsv->next = efi_memreserve_root->next;
> > > efi_memreserve_root->next = __pa(rsv);
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>\
> 
> I don't see the patch and I wasn't cc'ed

That is strange. Please see,

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1543517152-23969-1-git-send-email-cai@xxxxxx/