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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-18 01:00:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-18 01:00:19 +0100 |
| commit | dcc7cd011220d7425a265c9bbf04c5731dacec1b (patch) | |
| tree | 4c2244f6e6ce94e2698572e9d2df3baea8449c2a /kernel | |
| parent | Merge branch 'next-spi' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 (diff) | |
| parent | kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error (diff) | |
| download | linux-dcc7cd011220d7425a265c9bbf04c5731dacec1b.tar.xz linux-dcc7cd011220d7425a265c9bbf04c5731dacec1b.zip | |
Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
kmemleak: Reduce the false positives by checking for modified objects
kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object
kmemleak: Release the object lock before calling put_object()
kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules
kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype
kmemleak: Do not use off-slab management with SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index a65dc787a27b..e96b8ed1cb6a 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1910,9 +1910,7 @@ static void kmemleak_load_module(struct module *mod, Elf_Ehdr *hdr, unsigned int i; /* only scan the sections containing data */ - kmemleak_scan_area(mod->module_core, (unsigned long)mod - - (unsigned long)mod->module_core, - sizeof(struct module), GFP_KERNEL); + kmemleak_scan_area(mod, sizeof(struct module), GFP_KERNEL); for (i = 1; i < hdr->e_shnum; i++) { if (!(sechdrs[i].sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC)) @@ -1921,8 +1919,7 @@ static void kmemleak_load_module(struct module *mod, Elf_Ehdr *hdr, && strncmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name, ".bss", 4) != 0) continue; - kmemleak_scan_area(mod->module_core, sechdrs[i].sh_addr - - (unsigned long)mod->module_core, + kmemleak_scan_area((void *)sechdrs[i].sh_addr, sechdrs[i].sh_size, GFP_KERNEL); } } @@ -2250,6 +2247,12 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, "_ftrace_events", sizeof(*mod->trace_events), &mod->num_trace_events); + /* + * This section contains pointers to allocated objects in the trace + * code and not scanning it leads to false positives. + */ + kmemleak_scan_area(mod->trace_events, sizeof(*mod->trace_events) * + mod->num_trace_events, GFP_KERNEL); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD /* sechdrs[0].sh_size is always zero */ |