From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.1 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLACK,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE8AC433E0 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2020 04:35:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [203.11.71.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6930720801 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2020 04:35:04 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 6930720801 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ozlabs.ru Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from bilbo.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49jnvV1v7mzDqwJ for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:35:02 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=ozlabs.ru (client-ip=107.174.27.60; helo=ozlabs.ru; envelope-from=aik@ozlabs.ru; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ozlabs.ru Received: from ozlabs.ru (unknown [107.174.27.60]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49jnsR0b6ZzDqCb for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:33:13 +1000 (AEST) Received: from fstn1-p1.ozlabs.ibm.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by ozlabs.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475BFAE80013; Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:30:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexey Kardashevskiy To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: [PATCH kernel] powerpc/xive: Ignore kmemleak false positives Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:33:03 +1000 Message-Id: <20200612043303.84894-1-aik@ozlabs.ru> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy , Paul Mackerras Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" xive_native_provision_pages() allocates memory and passes the pointer to OPAL so kmemleak cannot find the pointer usage in the kernel memory and produces a false positive report (below) (even if the kernel did scan OPAL memory, it is unable to deal with __pa() addresses anyway). This silences the warning. unreferenced object 0xc000200350c40000 (size 65536): comm "qemu-system-ppc", pid 2725, jiffies 4294946414 (age 70776.530s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 02 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....P........... 01 00 08 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<0000000081ff046c>] xive_native_alloc_vp_block+0x120/0x250 [<00000000d555d524>] kvmppc_xive_compute_vp_id+0x248/0x350 [kvm] [<00000000d69b9c9f>] kvmppc_xive_connect_vcpu+0xc0/0x520 [kvm] [<000000006acbc81c>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x308/0x580 [kvm] [<0000000089c69580>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x19c/0xae0 [kvm] [<00000000902ae91e>] ksys_ioctl+0x184/0x1b0 [<00000000f3e68bd7>] sys_ioctl+0x48/0xb0 [<0000000001b2c127>] system_call_exception+0x124/0x1f0 [<00000000d2b2ee40>] system_call_common+0xe8/0x214 Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy --- Does kmemleak actually check the OPAL memory? Because if it did, we would still have a warning as kmemleak does not trace __pa() addresses anyway. --- arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c index 71b881e554fc..cb58ec7ce77a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -647,6 +648,7 @@ static bool xive_native_provision_pages(void) pr_err("Failed to allocate provisioning page\n"); return false; } + kmemleak_ignore(p); opal_xive_donate_page(chip, __pa(p)); } return true; -- 2.17.1