Hi Jens, On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/14/2015 11:16 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> >> The pages allocated for struct request contain pointers to other slab >> allocations (via ops->init_request). Since kmemleak does not track/scan >> page allocations, the slab objects will be reported as leaks (false >> positives). This patch adds kmemleak callbacks to allow tracking of such >> pages. >> >> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> >> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]> >> Tested-by: Bart Van Assche<[email protected]> >> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> >> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> >> --- >> >> Jens, >> >> I just realised that no-one has picked this patch up for -rc1. It was >> discussed here previously: >> >> >> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] >> >> Since it touches the block layer, are you fine with merging it? > > > Yeah looks simple enough for me, not sure why it got missed. I'll add it for > 4.4-rc1, thanks.
I saw the related kmemleaks reports on my v4.1.x kernel. Since it's actually fixing these wrong reports, do you think it could be a good candidate for -stable tree? Thanks, -- William -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
