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Chen Jun f25667e598 tracing: Fix a kmemleak false positive in tracing_map
Doing the command:
  echo 'hist:key=common_pid.execname,common_timestamp' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/xxx/trigger

Triggers many kmemleak reports:

unreferenced object 0xffff0000c7ea4980 (size 128):
  comm "bash", pid 338, jiffies 4294912626 (age 9339.324s)
  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:
    [<00000000f3469921>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x4c0/0x6f0
    [<0000000054ca40c3>] hist_trigger_elt_data_alloc+0x140/0x178
    [<00000000633bd154>] tracing_map_init+0x1f8/0x268
    [<000000007e814ab9>] event_hist_trigger_func+0xca0/0x1ad0
    [<00000000bf8520ed>] trigger_process_regex+0xd4/0x128
    [<00000000f549355a>] event_trigger_write+0x7c/0x120
    [<00000000b80f898d>] vfs_write+0xc4/0x380
    [<00000000823e1055>] ksys_write+0x74/0xf8
    [<000000008a9374aa>] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
    [<0000000087124017>] do_el0_svc+0x88/0x1c0
    [<00000000efd0dcd1>] el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
    [<00000000dbfba9b3>] el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xc0
    [<00000000e7399680>] el0_sync+0x148/0x180
unreferenced object 0xffff0000c7ea4980 (size 128):
  comm "bash", pid 338, jiffies 4294912626 (age 9339.324s)
  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:
    [<00000000f3469921>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x4c0/0x6f0
    [<0000000054ca40c3>] hist_trigger_elt_data_alloc+0x140/0x178
    [<00000000633bd154>] tracing_map_init+0x1f8/0x268
    [<000000007e814ab9>] event_hist_trigger_func+0xca0/0x1ad0
    [<00000000bf8520ed>] trigger_process_regex+0xd4/0x128
    [<00000000f549355a>] event_trigger_write+0x7c/0x120
    [<00000000b80f898d>] vfs_write+0xc4/0x380
    [<00000000823e1055>] ksys_write+0x74/0xf8
    [<000000008a9374aa>] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
    [<0000000087124017>] do_el0_svc+0x88/0x1c0
    [<00000000efd0dcd1>] el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
    [<00000000dbfba9b3>] el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xc0
    [<00000000e7399680>] el0_sync+0x148/0x180

The reason is elts->pages[i] is alloced by get_zeroed_page.
and kmemleak will not scan the area alloced by get_zeroed_page.
The address stored in elts->pages will be regarded as leaked.

That is, the elts->pages[i] will have pointers loaded onto it as well, and
without telling kmemleak about it, those pointers will look like memory
without a reference.

To fix this, call kmemleak_alloc to tell kmemleak to scan elts->pages[i]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124140801.87121-1-chenjun102@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-12-01 21:04:34 -05:00
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