Re: [PATCH v2] x86/pm: fix false positive kmemleak report in msr_build_context()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Apr 26 2022 - 12:24:20 EST


On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 5:22 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 08:24:10PM +0200, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h
> > index 35bb35d28733..bb7023dbf524 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h
> > @@ -14,9 +14,13 @@
> > * Image of the saved processor state, used by the low level ACPI suspend to
> > * RAM code and by the low level hibernation code.
> > *
> > - * If you modify it, fix arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S and make sure that
> > - * __save/__restore_processor_state(), defined in arch/x86/kernel/suspend_64.c,
> > - * still work as required.
> > + * If you modify it before 'misc_enable', fix arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
>
> Why does before misc_enable matter?
>
> arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c computes the offsets and there is a
> member like saved_context_gdt_desc which will get moved after your
> change but that's not a problem because the offset will get recomputed
> at build time.
>
> Hm?

So can the comment be dropped entirely?