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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2016-10-11 13:55:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-11 15:06:33 -0700
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mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping
Some of the kmemleak_*() callbacks in memblock, bootmem, CMA convert a physical address to a virtual one using __va(). However, such physical addresses may sometimes be located in highmem and using __va() is incorrect, leading to inconsistent object tracking in kmemleak. The following functions have been added to the kmemleak API and they take a physical address as the object pointer. They only perform the corresponding action if the address has a lowmem mapping: kmemleak_alloc_phys kmemleak_free_part_phys kmemleak_not_leak_phys kmemleak_ignore_phys The affected calling places have been updated to use the new kmemleak API. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471531432-16503-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst
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--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst
@@ -162,6 +162,15 @@ See the include/linux/kmemleak.h header for the functions prototype.
- ``kmemleak_alloc_recursive`` - as kmemleak_alloc but checks the recursiveness
- ``kmemleak_free_recursive`` - as kmemleak_free but checks the recursiveness
+The following functions take a physical address as the object pointer
+and only perform the corresponding action if the address has a lowmem
+mapping:
+
+- ``kmemleak_alloc_phys``
+- ``kmemleak_free_part_phys``
+- ``kmemleak_not_leak_phys``
+- ``kmemleak_ignore_phys``
+
Dealing with false positives/negatives
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