Re: [PATCH] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: only kmemleak_ignore L2 tables

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 05:43:01PM +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote:
> L1 tables are allocated with __get_dma_pages, and therefore already
> ignored by kmemleak.
> 
> Without this, the kernel would print this error message on boot,
> when the first L1 table is allocated:
> 
> [    2.810533] kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xffffffd652388000 as Black
> [    2.818190] CPU: 5 PID: 39 Comm: kworker/5:0 Tainted: G S                4.19.16 #8
> [    2.831227] Workqueue: events deferred_probe_work_func
> [    2.836353] Call trace:
> ...
> [    2.852532]  paint_ptr+0xa0/0xa8
> [    2.855750]  kmemleak_ignore+0x38/0x6c
> [    2.859490]  __arm_v7s_alloc_table+0x168/0x1f4
> [    2.863922]  arm_v7s_alloc_pgtable+0x114/0x17c
> [    2.868354]  alloc_io_pgtable_ops+0x3c/0x78
> ...
> 
> Fixes: e5fc9753b1a8314 ("iommu/io-pgtable: Add ARMv7 short descriptor support")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> I only tested this on top of my other series
> (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10720495/), but I think the same fix
> applies. I'm still a bit confused as to why this only shows up now, as IIUC,
> the kmemleak_ignore call was always wrong with L1 tables.
> 
>  drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
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for how to do this properly.

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