kmemleak: Don't scan uninitialized memory when kmemcheck is enabled
authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:50:00 +0000 (14:50 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:05:55 +0000 (16:05 +0100)
Ingo Molnar reported the following kmemcheck warning when running both
kmemleak and kmemcheck enabled:

  PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7
  WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory
  (f6f6e1a4)
  d873f9f600000000c42ae4c1005c87f70000000070665f666978656400000000
   i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u
           ^

  Pid: 3091, comm: kmemleak Not tainted (2.6.31-rc7-tip #1303) P4DC6
  EIP: 0060:[<c110301f>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 0
  EIP is at scan_block+0x3f/0xe0
  EAX: f40bd700 EBX: f40bd780 ECX: f16b46c0 EDX: 00000001
  ESI: f6f6e1a4 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f10f3f4c ESP: c2605fcc
   DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
  CR0: 8005003b CR2: e89a4844 CR3: 30ff1000 CR4: 000006f0
  DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
  DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400
   [<c110313c>] scan_object+0x7c/0xf0
   [<c1103389>] kmemleak_scan+0x1d9/0x400
   [<c1103a3c>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4c/0xb0
   [<c10819d4>] kthread+0x74/0x80
   [<c10257db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x3c
   [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
  kmemleak: 515 new suspected memory leaks (see
  /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
  kmemleak: 42 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

The problem here is that kmemleak will scan partially initialized
objects that makes kmemcheck complain. Fix that up by skipping
uninitialized memory regions when kmemcheck is enabled.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
include/linux/kmemcheck.h
mm/kmemleak.c

index 2c55ed098654f3815586973a52446b83c3db5228..528bf954eb7403c82d0816957b02a653ff9bcf18 100644 (file)
@@ -331,6 +331,20 @@ static void kmemcheck_read_strict(struct pt_regs *regs,
        kmemcheck_shadow_set(shadow, size);
 }
 
+bool kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized(unsigned long addr, size_t size)
+{
+       enum kmemcheck_shadow status;
+       void *shadow;
+
+       shadow = kmemcheck_shadow_lookup(addr);
+       if (!shadow)
+               return true;
+
+       status = kmemcheck_shadow_test(shadow, size);
+
+       return status == KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_INITIALIZED;
+}
+
 /* Access may cross page boundary */
 static void kmemcheck_read(struct pt_regs *regs,
        unsigned long addr, unsigned int size)
index 47b39b7c7e849189a9115c7669181c8f4f4714bd..dc2fd545db002459a0add2169ed861bec7ecf425 100644 (file)
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ void kmemcheck_mark_initialized_pages(struct page *p, unsigned int n);
 int kmemcheck_show_addr(unsigned long address);
 int kmemcheck_hide_addr(unsigned long address);
 
+bool kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized(unsigned long addr, size_t size);
+
 #else
 #define kmemcheck_enabled 0
 
@@ -99,6 +101,11 @@ static inline void kmemcheck_mark_initialized_pages(struct page *p,
 {
 }
 
+static inline bool kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized(unsigned long addr, size_t size)
+{
+       return true;
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_KMEMCHECK */
 
 /*
index 1d7645b0a97ca034552d0e43ac39b475b0513a61..c494fee7a2b57d15a608f7c4f3bf1c164b3f4d6a 100644 (file)
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 
+#include <linux/kmemcheck.h>
 #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 
 /*
@@ -967,15 +968,22 @@ static void scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
        unsigned long *end = _end - (BYTES_PER_POINTER - 1);
 
        for (ptr = start; ptr < end; ptr++) {
-               unsigned long flags;
-               unsigned long pointer = *ptr;
                struct kmemleak_object *object;
+               unsigned long flags;
+               unsigned long pointer;
 
                if (allow_resched)
                        cond_resched();
                if (scan_should_stop())
                        break;
 
+               /* don't scan uninitialized memory */
+               if (!kmemcheck_is_obj_initialized((unsigned long)ptr,
+                                                 BYTES_PER_POINTER))
+                       continue;
+
+               pointer = *ptr;
+
                object = find_and_get_object(pointer, 1);
                if (!object)
                        continue;