[PATCH] mm/kmemleak: fix scan period truncation on 32-bit platforms

From: shao.mingyin

Date: Sat Nov 14 2026 - 11:47:35 EST


From: Shao Mingyin <shao.mingyin@xxxxxxxxxx>

mm/kmemleak: fix scan period truncation on 32-bit platforms

kmemleak_write() converts the scan period from seconds to milliseconds
before clamping it to UINT_MAX. On 32-bit kernels, unsigned secs and
MSEC_PER_SEC (1000L) are multiplied in a 32-bit unsigned type. The result
wraps before the clamp can detect overflow.

For example, scan=4294968 produces 704 milliseconds instead of the
UINT_MAX millisecond limit. Perform the multiplication and keep the
intermediate result in unsigned long long, preserving the existing
64-bit behavior and the later msecs_to_jiffies() clamping.

Commit 54dd200c5a25 ("mm/kmemleak: fix possible wrong memory scanning
period") added this clamp, but it cannot work after a 32-bit multiply
has already overflowed.

Signed-off-by: Shao Mingyin <shao.mingyin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Build-tested mm/kmemleak.o with W=1 on x86_64 and i386. A freestanding
i386 program checked six inputs, including scan=4294968: the old
arithmetic yields 704 ms and the new arithmetic clamps to UINT_MAX.
This is an arithmetic test, not a kmemleak scanner runtime measurement.


mm/kmemleak.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 1bca27787df6256d89b54fc3381ca5abb49ac7a6..87274591257f6655655ba5bdd0381f3a38c9404e 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -2455,13 +2455,13 @@ static ssize_t kmemleak_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
stop_scan_thread();
else if (strncmp(buf, "scan=", 5) == 0) {
unsigned secs;
- unsigned long msecs;
+ unsigned long long msecs;

ret = kstrtouint(buf + 5, 0, &secs);
if (ret < 0)
goto out;

- msecs = secs * MSEC_PER_SEC;
+ msecs = (unsigned long long)secs * MSEC_PER_SEC;
if (msecs > UINT_MAX)
msecs = UINT_MAX;


base-commit: 84abb955b1015477aa11a96e2f3ac1b938b77f48
--
2.43.0