[regression v6.5-rc1] PCI: comm "swapper/0" leaking memory

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Wed Aug 30 2023 - 14:44:10 EST


Hi,

I noticed that starting from v6.5-rc1 my ath11k tests reported several
memory leaks from swapper/0:

unreferenced object 0xffff88810a02b7a8 (size 96):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294671838 (age 98.120s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
80 b8 02 0a 81 88 ff ff b8 72 07 00 00 c9 ff ff .........r......
c8 b7 02 0a 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810a02b880 (size 96):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294671838 (age 98.120s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
58 b9 02 0a 81 88 ff ff a8 b7 02 0a 81 88 ff ff X...............
a0 b8 02 0a 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810a02b958 (size 96):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294671838 (age 98.120s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
30 ba 02 0a 81 88 ff ff 80 b8 02 0a 81 88 ff ff 0...............
78 b9 02 0a 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 x...............
backtrace:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810a02ba30 (size 96):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294671838 (age 98.120s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
08 bb 02 0a 81 88 ff ff 58 b9 02 0a 81 88 ff ff ........X.......
50 ba 02 0a 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 P...............
backtrace:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810a02bb08 (size 96):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294671838 (age 98.120s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
e0 bb 02 0a 81 88 ff ff 30 ba 02 0a 81 88 ff ff ........0.......
28 bb 02 0a 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (...............
backtrace:

I can easily reproduce this by doing a simple insmod and rmmod of ath11k
and it's dependencies (mac80211, MHI etc). I can reliability reproduce
the leaks but I only see them once after a boot, I need to reboot the
host to see the leaks again. v6.4 has no leaks.

I did a bisect and found the commit below. I verified reverting the
commit makes the leaks go away.

commit e54223275ba1bc6f704a6bab015fcd2ae4f72572
Author: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu May 25 16:32:48 2023 +0100
Commit: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri Jun 9 15:06:16 2023 -0500

PCI: Release resource invalidated by coalescing

Kalle