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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kmemleak: add checksum to backtrace report
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 17:36:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZVj2CRI7452gm6lH@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231116224318.124209-3-jim.cromie@gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 03:43:18PM -0700, Jim Cromie wrote:
> Change /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak report format slightly, adding
> "(extra info)" to the backtrace header:
> 
> from: "  backtrace:"
> to:   "  backtrace (crc <cksum>):"
> 
> The <cksum> allows a user to see recurring backtraces without
> detailed/careful reading of multiline stacks.  So after cycling
> kmemleak-test a few times, I know some leaks are repeating.
> 
>   bash-5.2# grep backtrace /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak | wc
>      62     186    1792
>   bash-5.2# grep backtrace /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak | sort -u | wc
>      37     111    1067
> 
> syzkaller parses kmemleak for "unreferenced object" only, so is
> unaffected by this change.  Other github repos are moribund.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-18 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-16 22:43 [PATCH 0/2] tweak kmemleak report format Jim Cromie
2023-11-16 22:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] kmemleak: drop (age <increasing>) from leak record Jim Cromie
2023-11-18 17:35   ` Catalin Marinas
2023-11-16 22:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] kmemleak: add checksum to backtrace report Jim Cromie
2023-11-18 17:36   ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2023-11-26  6:44     ` jim.cromie
2023-11-16 23:22 ` [PATCH 0/2] tweak kmemleak report format jim.cromie

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