kasan: fix kmemleak false-positive in kasan_module_alloc()
authorAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:57:18 +0000 (15:57 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:17:32 +0000 (16:17 -0800)
commit459372545c9c0d6f491e280dccc8a54a61b60e56
tree3a49c12179dc5c0473f0d4e3716fe44af3c8069b
parent928a477102c4fc6739883415b66987207e3502f4
kasan: fix kmemleak false-positive in kasan_module_alloc()

Kmemleak reports the following leak:

unreferenced object 0xfffffbfff41ea000 (size 20480):
comm "modprobe", pid 65199, jiffies 4298875551 (age 542.568s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
backtrace:
  [<ffffffff82354f5e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xc0
  [<ffffffff8152e718>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x4b8/0x740
  [<ffffffff81574072>] kasan_module_alloc+0x72/0xc0
  [<ffffffff810efe68>] module_alloc+0x78/0xb0
  [<ffffffff812f6a24>] module_alloc_update_bounds+0x14/0x70
  [<ffffffff812f8184>] layout_and_allocate+0x16f4/0x3c90
  [<ffffffff812faa1f>] load_module+0x2ff/0x6690
  [<ffffffff813010b6>] SyS_finit_module+0x136/0x170
  [<ffffffff8239bbc9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

kasan_module_alloc() allocates shadow memory for module and frees it on
module unloading.  It doesn't store the pointer to allocated shadow memory
because it could be calculated from the shadowed address, i.e.
kasan_mem_to_shadow(addr).

Since kmemleak cannot find pointer to allocated shadow, it thinks that
memory leaked.

Use kmemleak_ignore() to tell kmemleak that this is not a leak and shadow
memory doesn't contain any pointers.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-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/kasan/kasan.c