On 21/01/2019 14:35, Rob Herring wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 6:19 AM Robin Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On 21/01/2019 11:57, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
>> [...]
>>> # echo dump=0xffffffc021e00000 > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>>> kmemleak: Object 0xffffffc021e00000 (size 2097152):
>>> kmemleak:   comm "swapper/0", pid 0, jiffies 4294892296
>>> kmemleak:   min_count = 0
>>> kmemleak:   count = 0
>>> kmemleak:   flags = 0x1
>>> kmemleak:   checksum = 0
>>> kmemleak:   backtrace:
>>>       kmemleak_alloc_phys+0x48/0x60
>>>       memblock_alloc_range_nid+0x8c/0xa4
>>>       memblock_alloc_base_nid+0x4c/0x60
>>>       __memblock_alloc_base+0x3c/0x4c
>>>       early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch+0x54/0xa4
>>>       fdt_init_reserved_mem+0x308/0x3ec
>>>       early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x88/0xb0
>>>       arm64_memblock_init+0x1dc/0x254
>>>       setup_arch+0x1c8/0x4ec
>>>       start_kernel+0x84/0x44c
>>>       0xffffffffffffffff
>>
>> OK, so via the __va(phys) call in kmemleak_alloc_phys(), you end up with
>> the linear map address of a no-map reservation, which unsurprisingly
>> turns out not to be mapped. Is there a way to tell kmemleak that it
>> can't scan within a particular object?
> 
> There was this patch posted[1]. I never got a reply, so it hasn't been 
> applied.
> 
> Rob
> 
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/995367/

It is worth noting that the author's email address appears to be dead.
<[email protected]>: host hqemgate08.nvidia.com[216.228.121.117] said:
550 #5.1.0 Address rejected. (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Adding a few nvidia devs for comment.

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