kmemleak: No need for scanning specific module sections
authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Wed, 15 May 2013 19:46:23 +0000 (20:46 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 17 May 2013 08:53:36 +0000 (09:53 +0100)
As kmemleak now scans all module sections that are allocated, writable
and non executable, there's no need to scan individual sections that
might reference data.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
kernel/module.c

index 06f496a..cab4bce 100644 (file)
@@ -2769,24 +2769,11 @@ static void find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
        mod->trace_events = section_objs(info, "_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_TRACING
        mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start = section_objs(info, "__trace_printk_fmt",
                                         sizeof(*mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start),
                                         &mod->num_trace_bprintk_fmt);
-       /*
-        * This section contains pointers to allocated objects in the trace
-        * code and not scanning it leads to false positives.
-        */
-       kmemleak_scan_area(mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start,
-                          sizeof(*mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start) *
-                          mod->num_trace_bprintk_fmt, GFP_KERNEL);
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
        /* sechdrs[0].sh_size is always zero */