[PATCH] buffer: fix kmemleak false positive in submit_bh_wbc
From: Sasha Levin
Date: Tue Feb 24 2026 - 14:06:53 EST
Bios allocated in submit_bh_wbc are properly freed via their end_io
handler. Since commit 48f22f80938d, bio_put() caches them in a per-CPU
bio cache for reuse rather than freeing them back to the mempool.
While cached bios are reachable by kmemleak via the per-CPU cache
pointers, once recycled for new I/O they are only referenced by block
layer internals that kmemleak does not scan, causing false positive
leak reports.
Mark the bio allocation with kmemleak_not_leak() to suppress the false
positive.
Fixes: 48f22f80938d ("block: enable per-cpu bio cache by default")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/buffer.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 22b43642ba574..c298df6c7f8c6 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <trace/events/block.h>
#include <linux/fscrypt.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <linux/fsverity.h>
#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
@@ -2799,6 +2800,7 @@ static void submit_bh_wbc(blk_opf_t opf, struct buffer_head *bh,
opf |= REQ_PRIO;
bio = bio_alloc(bh->b_bdev, 1, opf, GFP_NOIO);
+ kmemleak_not_leak(bio);
fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx_bh(bio, bh, GFP_NOIO);
--
2.51.0