Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kvm: silence kmemleak false positives

[Michael Ellerman]

Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> writes:
> kvmppc_pmd_alloc() and kvmppc_pte_alloc() allocate some memory but then
> pud_populate() and pmd_populate() will use __pa() to reference the newly
> allocated memory. The same is in xive_native_provision_pages().
>
> Since kmemleak is unable to track the physical memory resulting in false
> positives, silence those by using kmemleak_ignore().

There is kmemleak_alloc_phys(), which according to the docs can be used
for tracking a phys address.

Did you try that?

cheers


> unreferenced object 0xc000201c382a1000 (size 4096):
>   comm "qemu-kvm", pid 124828, jiffies 4295733767 (age 341.250s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     c0 00 20 09 f4 60 03 87 c0 00 20 10 72 a0 03 87  .. ..`.... .r...
>     c0 00 20 0e 13 a0 03 87 c0 00 20 1b dc c0 03 87  .. ....... .....
>   backtrace:
>     [<000000004cc2790f>] kvmppc_create_pte+0x838/0xd20 [kvm_hv]
>     kvmppc_pmd_alloc at arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c:366
>     (inlined by) kvmppc_create_pte at arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c:590
>     [<00000000d123c49a>] kvmppc_book3s_instantiate_page+0x2e0/0x8c0 [kvm_hv]
>     [<00000000bb549087>] kvmppc_book3s_radix_page_fault+0x1b4/0x2b0 [kvm_hv]
>     [<0000000086dddc0e>] kvmppc_book3s_hv_page_fault+0x214/0x12a0 [kvm_hv]
>     [<000000005ae9ccc2>] kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0xc5c/0x15f0 [kvm_hv]
>     [<00000000d22162ff>] kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x34/0x48 [kvm]
>     [<00000000d6953bc4>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x314/0x420 [kvm]
>     [<000000002543dd54>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x33c/0x950 [kvm]
>     [<0000000048155cd6>] ksys_ioctl+0xd8/0x130
>     [<0000000041ffeaa7>] sys_ioctl+0x28/0x40
>     [<000000004afc4310>] system_call_exception+0x114/0x1e0
>     [<00000000fb70a873>] system_call_common+0xf0/0x278
> unreferenced object 0xc0002001f0c03900 (size 256):
>   comm "qemu-kvm", pid 124830, jiffies 4295735235 (age 326.570s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     c0 00 20 10 fa a0 03 87 c0 00 20 10 fa a1 03 87  .. ....... .....
>     c0 00 20 10 fa a2 03 87 c0 00 20 10 fa a3 03 87  .. ....... .....
>   backtrace:
>     [<0000000023f675b8>] kvmppc_create_pte+0x854/0xd20 [kvm_hv]
>     kvmppc_pte_alloc at arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c:356
>     (inlined by) kvmppc_create_pte at arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c:593
>     [<00000000d123c49a>] kvmppc_book3s_instantiate_page+0x2e0/0x8c0 [kvm_hv]
>     [<00000000bb549087>] kvmppc_book3s_radix_page_fault+0x1b4/0x2b0 [kvm_hv]
>     [<0000000086dddc0e>] kvmppc_book3s_hv_page_fault+0x214/0x12a0 [kvm_hv]
>     [<000000005ae9ccc2>] kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0xc5c/0x15f0 [kvm_hv]
>     [<00000000d22162ff>] kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x34/0x48 [kvm]
>     [<00000000d6953bc4>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x314/0x420 [kvm]
>     [<000000002543dd54>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x33c/0x950 [kvm]
>     [<0000000048155cd6>] ksys_ioctl+0xd8/0x130
>     [<0000000041ffeaa7>] sys_ioctl+0x28/0x40
>     [<000000004afc4310>] system_call_exception+0x114/0x1e0
>     [<00000000fb70a873>] system_call_common+0xf0/0x278
> unreferenced object 0xc000201b53e90000 (size 65536):
>   comm "qemu-kvm", pid 124557, jiffies 4295650285 (age 364.370s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<00000000acc2fb77>] xive_native_alloc_vp_block+0x168/0x210
>     xive_native_provision_pages at arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c:645
>     (inlined by) xive_native_alloc_vp_block at arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c:674
>     [<000000004d5c7964>] kvmppc_xive_compute_vp_id+0x20c/0x3b0 [kvm]
>     [<0000000055317cd2>] kvmppc_xive_connect_vcpu+0xa4/0x4a0 [kvm]
>     [<0000000093dfc014>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x388/0x508 [kvm]
>     [<00000000d25aea0f>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x15c/0x950 [kvm]
>     [<0000000048155cd6>] ksys_ioctl+0xd8/0x130
>     [<0000000041ffeaa7>] sys_ioctl+0x28/0x40
>     [<000000004afc4310>] system_call_exception+0x114/0x1e0
>     [<00000000fb70a873>] system_call_common+0xf0/0x278
>
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c      |  4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c
> index aa12cd4078b3..bc6c1aa3d0e9 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c
> @@ -353,7 +353,13 @@ static struct kmem_cache *kvm_pmd_cache;
>  
>  static pte_t *kvmppc_pte_alloc(void)
>  {
> -	return kmem_cache_alloc(kvm_pte_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	pte_t *pte;
> +
> +	pte = kmem_cache_alloc(kvm_pte_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	/* pmd_populate() will only reference _pa(pte). */
> +	kmemleak_ignore(pte);
> +
> +	return pte;
>  }
>  
>  static void kvmppc_pte_free(pte_t *ptep)
> @@ -363,7 +369,13 @@ static void kvmppc_pte_free(pte_t *ptep)
>  
>  static pmd_t *kvmppc_pmd_alloc(void)
>  {
> -	return kmem_cache_alloc(kvm_pmd_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	pmd_t *pmd;
> +
> +	pmd = kmem_cache_alloc(kvm_pmd_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	/* pud_populate() will only reference _pa(pmd). */
> +	kmemleak_ignore(pmd);
> +
> +	return pmd;
>  }
>  
>  static void kvmppc_pmd_free(pmd_t *pmdp)
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c
> index 5218fdc4b29a..2d19f28967a6 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>  #include <linux/delay.h>
>  #include <linux/cpumask.h>
>  #include <linux/mm.h>
> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/machdep.h>
>  #include <asm/prom.h>
> @@ -647,6 +648,9 @@ static bool xive_native_provision_pages(void)
>  			pr_err("Failed to allocate provisioning page\n");
>  			return false;
>  		}
> +		/* Kmemleak is unable to track the physical address. */
> +		kmemleak_ignore(p);
> +
>  		opal_xive_donate_page(chip, __pa(p));
>  	}
>  	return true;
> -- 
> 2.21.0 (Apple Git-122.2)