kmemleak reported memory leak in kasan_module_alloc() like following log, even through kasan_free_shadow() frees that address.
unreferenced object 0xfffffbfff40ac000 (size 118784): comm "modprobe", pid 196, jiffies 4294878847 (age 87.590s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff81853a8e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xc0 [<ffffffff812868d0>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x340/0x3f0 [<ffffffff812b0ae2>] kasan_module_alloc+0x72/0xd0 [<ffffffff8108c908>] module_alloc+0x78/0xb0 [<ffffffff81189474>] module_alloc_update_bounds+0x14/0x70 [<ffffffff8118a457>] load_module+0xf67/0x4670 [<ffffffff8118dd35>] SyS_init_module+0x1d5/0x220 [<ffffffff8186642e>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x71 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Kmemleak may think anyone take care of result of __vmalloc_node_range() after the function. So, it would be nice to call kmemleak_not_leak() to tell memory is not leaked. Signed-off-by: Masami Ichikawa <masami...@gmail.com> --- mm/kasan/kasan.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c index 6c513a6..0ef75b9 100644 --- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c +++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c @@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ int kasan_module_alloc(void *addr, size_t size) __builtin_return_address(0)); if (ret) { + kmemleak_not_leak(ret); find_vm_area(addr)->flags |= VM_KASAN; return 0; } -- 2.4.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/