From ca182551857cc2c1e6a2b7f1e72090a137a15008 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:58:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks Kmemleak considers any pointers on task stacks as references. This patch clears newly allocated and reused vmap stacks. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150728990124.744199.8403409836394318684.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/thread_info.h | 2 +- kernel/fork.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h index 905d769d8ddc..5f7eeab990fe 100644 --- a/include/linux/thread_info.h +++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ enum { #define THREAD_ALIGN THREAD_SIZE #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK) # define THREADINFO_GFP (GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_NOTRACK | \ __GFP_ZERO) #else diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index e702cb9ffbd8..07cc743698d3 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node) if (!s) continue; +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + /* Clear stale pointers from reused stack. */ + memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE); +#endif tsk->stack_vm_area = s; return s->addr; } -- 2.20.1