Re: [PATCHv4 2/2] mm: use stack_depot_early_init for kmemleak

Vlastimil Babka
2023-01-19T10:32:44Z

On 1/19/23 02:22, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
>
> Mirsad report bellow error which caused by stack_depot_init failed in kvcalloc.
> Solve this by having stackdepot use stack_depot_early_init.
>
> On 1/4/23 17:08, Mirsad Goran Todorovac wrote:
> I hate to bring bad news again, but there seems to be a problem with the output of /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak:
>
> [root@pc-mtodorov ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> unreferenced object 0xffff951c118568b0 (size 16):
> comm "kworker/u12:2", pid 56, jiffies 4294893952 (age 4356.548s)
> hex dump (first 16 bytes):
> 6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 memstick0.......
> backtrace:
> [root@pc-mtodorov ~]#
>
> Apparently, backtrace of called functions on the stack is no longer printed with the list of memory leaks.
> This appeared on Lenovo desktop 10TX000VCR, with AlmaLinux 8.7 and BIOS version M22KT49A (11/10/2022)
> and 6.2-rc1 and 6.2-rc2 builds.
> This worked on 6.1 with the same CONFIG_KMEMLEAK=y and MGLRU enabled on a vanilla mainstream kernel
> from Mr. Torvalds' tree. I don't know if this is deliberate feature for some reason or a bug.
> Please find attached the config, lshw and kmemleak output.

I think we could replace the full quote of the report with

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5272a819-ef74-65ff-be61-4d2d567337de@alu.unizg.hr/

also

Fixes: 56a61617dd22 ("mm: use stack_depot for recording kmemleak's backtrace")

(Andrew can do that when picking up, no need to send v5)

> reported-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr>
> suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

But to be cleaner I'd also suggest Andrew adds the hunk below. The call
to stack_depot_init() becomes no-op after this patch so it's not a bug
to leave it there, but it's just misleading now.

---8<---
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 91dda5c2753a..55dc8b8b0616 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -2095,7 +2095,6 @@ void __init kmemleak_init(void)
if (kmemleak_error)
return;

- stack_depot_init();
jiffies_min_age = msecs_to_jiffies(MSECS_MIN_AGE);
jiffies_scan_wait = msecs_to_jiffies(SECS_SCAN_WAIT * 1000);