From: Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for kmemleak
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 14:18:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <565EEFB4.4080108@profitbricks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151202131300.GC3910@pd.tnic>
Hi, Borislav
On 12/02/2015 02:13 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:01:55PM +0100, Michael Wang wrote:
>> Yeah.. it's a little complicated since we have our own kernel tree and this
>> won't be a problem for us, but we really prefer to help fix it in mainline
>> too, as long as this is really a defect, so others could save time on research
>> in future.
>
> Well, to keep it realistic and if it were me, I wouldn't even take such
> a fix as it is apparently kmemleak's problem.
Do you mean this could be a real kmemleak? Could you please provide more details?
>
> So you could fix your testing instead to ignore that error message now
> that you know it is a false-positive. That should be easiest.
>
Yeah, but it would be better to solve it, otherwise whoever saw this report
will need to go into the amd-iommu, make sure it's not a real leak, then
change their testing script...
Regards,
Michael Wang
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-20 11:09 [RFC PATCH] iommu/amd: make kmemleak ignore the 'irq_remap_table' object Michael Wang
2015-11-20 11:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for kmemleak Michael Wang
2015-11-20 12:31 ` Michael Wang
[not found] ` <564F051E.9010703-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-25 11:14 ` Michael Wang
2015-11-25 11:14 ` Michael Wang
2015-11-25 15:08 ` Joerg Roedel
[not found] ` <20151125150806.GG2064-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-25 15:14 ` Michael Wang
2015-11-25 15:14 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 10:37 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 10:52 ` Catalin Marinas
[not found] ` <CAHkRjk5QNQiNeJTcjKFQzpac_4us_3Ts1w4+uRw6TY16LbgsJA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 10:56 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 10:56 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 11:31 ` Catalin Marinas
[not found] ` <CAHkRjk5WzPT1gRaa=3qyrp1gcee9ZQKF_rU42FAu0C6ep8JPug-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 11:38 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 11:38 ` Michael Wang
[not found] ` <565ED81B.3020606-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 11:51 ` Joerg Roedel
2015-12-02 11:51 ` Joerg Roedel
[not found] ` <20151202115142.GD18805-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 12:31 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 12:31 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 12:53 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <20151202125315.GB3910-fF5Pk5pvG8Y@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 13:01 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 13:01 ` Michael Wang
[not found] ` <565EEBC3.5050807-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 13:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-02 13:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-02 13:18 ` Michael Wang [this message]
2015-12-02 13:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-02 13:48 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 13:59 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <20151202135931.GF3783-fF5Pk5pvG8Y@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 14:09 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 14:09 ` Michael Wang
[not found] ` <565EFB8E.4020600-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 14:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-02 14:13 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <20151202141309.GG3783-fF5Pk5pvG8Y@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 14:21 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 14:21 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 17:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-12-02 17:36 ` Catalin Marinas
[not found] ` <CAHkRjk4DdRE6=tN7VZu67Bsdty_4uT2GSbUff5MwP_nSJ+uj4A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 18:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-02 18:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-03 8:47 ` Michael Wang
[not found] ` <565EE4AA.4070309-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 12:56 ` Joerg Roedel
2015-12-02 12:56 ` Joerg Roedel
[not found] ` <20151202125636.GE18805-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 13:07 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 13:07 ` Michael Wang
2015-12-02 11:17 ` Joerg Roedel
2015-12-02 11:17 ` Joerg Roedel
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