From dc47dfd2bdcd9d46fc80c0fc48cd70274b464f60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:07:45 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects commit 7f88f88f83ed609650a01b18572e605ea50cd163 upstream. Commit 248ac0e1943a ("mm/vmalloc: remove guard page from between vmap blocks") had the side effect of making vmap_area.va_end member point to the next vmap_area.va_start. This was creating an artificial reference to vmalloc'ed objects and kmemleak was rarely reporting vmalloc() leaks. This patch marks the vmap_area containing pointers explicitly and reduces the min ref_count to 2 as vm_struct still contains a reference to the vmalloc'ed object. The kmemleak add_scan_area() function has been improved to allow a SIZE_MAX argument covering the rest of the object (for simpler calling sites). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-format-patch failed