kmemleak: free internal objects only if there're no leaks to be reported
authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Thu, 3 Apr 2014 21:46:26 +0000 (14:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 3 Apr 2014 23:20:50 +0000 (16:20 -0700)
Currently if you stop kmemleak thread before disabling kmemleak,
kmemleak objects will be freed and so you won't be able to check
previously reported leaks.

With this patch, kmemleak objects won't be freed if there're leaks that
can be reported.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/kmemleak.c

index 31f01c5011e59414e95b888b2b3d515940ab72ab..474379ea3cff0992faaf3173b67f130ab3cde3c7 100644 (file)
@@ -218,7 +218,8 @@ static int kmemleak_stack_scan = 1;
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(scan_mutex);
 /* setting kmemleak=on, will set this var, skipping the disable */
 static int kmemleak_skip_disable;
-
+/* If there are leaks that can be reported */
+static bool kmemleak_found_leaks;
 
 /*
  * Early object allocation/freeing logging. Kmemleak is initialized after the
@@ -1382,9 +1383,12 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
        }
        rcu_read_unlock();
 
-       if (new_leaks)
+       if (new_leaks) {
+               kmemleak_found_leaks = true;
+
                pr_info("%d new suspected memory leaks (see "
                        "/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)\n", new_leaks);
+       }
 
 }
 
@@ -1592,6 +1596,8 @@ static void kmemleak_clear(void)
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&object->lock, flags);
        }
        rcu_read_unlock();
+
+       kmemleak_found_leaks = false;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1685,12 +1691,11 @@ static const struct file_operations kmemleak_fops = {
 static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
 {
        struct kmemleak_object *object;
-       bool cleanup = scan_thread == NULL;
 
        mutex_lock(&scan_mutex);
        stop_scan_thread();
 
-       if (cleanup) {
+       if (!kmemleak_found_leaks) {
                rcu_read_lock();
                list_for_each_entry_rcu(object, &object_list, object_list)
                        delete_object_full(object->pointer);