mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:07:45 +0000 (15:07 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:09:07 +0000 (12:09 +0900)
commit7f88f88f83ed609650a01b18572e605ea50cd163
tree7a515679de2418dbf006bdc40c23b8c6f6b73fce
parent81556b02525181e19ef073a798ba9d48db96f708
mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects

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 <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/kmemleak.c
mm/vmalloc.c