Re: [PATCH -next] bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in free_bootmem_page

[Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>]

On 2022/8/19 11:31, Muchun Song wrote:
>
>> On Aug 18, 2022, at 21:21, Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> The vmemmap pages is marked by kmemleak when allocated from memblock.
>> Remove it from kmemleak when free the page. Otherwise, when we reuse the
>> page, kmemleak may report such an error and then stop working.
>>
>> kmemleak: Cannot insert 0xffff98fb6eab3d40 into the object search tree (overlaps existing)
>> kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled
>> kmemleak: Object 0xffff98fb6be00000 (size 335544320):
>> kmemleak:   comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294892296
>> kmemleak:   min_count = 0
>> kmemleak:   count = 0
>> kmemleak:   flags = 0x1
>> kmemleak:   checksum = 0
>> kmemleak:   backtrace:
>>
>> Fixes: f41f2ed43ca5 ("mm: hugetlb: free the vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB page")
>> Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
>> ---
>> include/linux/bootmem_info.h | 6 ++++--
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem_info.h b/include/linux/bootmem_info.h
>> index cc35d010fa94..899bc56948f7 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/bootmem_info.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/bootmem_info.h
>> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>> #define __LINUX_BOOTMEM_INFO_H
>>
>> #include <linux/mm.h>
>> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
>>
>> /*
>>  * Types for free bootmem stored in page->lru.next. These have to be in
>> @@ -38,9 +39,10 @@ static inline void free_bootmem_page(struct page *page)
>> 	 */
>> 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) != 2, page);
> I am wondering if we should fix put_page_bootmem() instead of
> free_bootmem_page() since there are some users of put_page_bootmem()
> to free a page allocated from memblock which also can be reused
> afterwards.
>
> Thanks.
Thanks for your advise, it looks like that this problem may be occurs in memory hotremove too.
So it's more appropriate to fix put_page_bootmem()

Thanks,

>
>> -	if (magic == SECTION_INFO || magic == MIX_SECTION_INFO)
>> +	if (magic == SECTION_INFO || magic == MIX_SECTION_INFO) {
>> +		kmemleak_free_part(page_to_virt(page), PAGE_SIZE);
>> 		put_page_bootmem(page);
>> -	else
>> +	} else
>> 		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(1, page);
>> }
>> #else
>> -- 
>> 2.25.1
>>
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