Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for kmemleak | From | Michael Wang <> | Date | Wed, 2 Dec 2015 14:18:44 +0100 |
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Hi, Borislav
On 12/02/2015 02:13 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:01:55PM +0100, Michael Wang wrote: >> Yeah.. it's a little complicated since we have our own kernel tree and this >> won't be a problem for us, but we really prefer to help fix it in mainline >> too, as long as this is really a defect, so others could save time on research >> in future. > > Well, to keep it realistic and if it were me, I wouldn't even take such > a fix as it is apparently kmemleak's problem.
Do you mean this could be a real kmemleak? Could you please provide more details?
> > So you could fix your testing instead to ignore that error message now > that you know it is a false-positive. That should be easiest. >
Yeah, but it would be better to solve it, otherwise whoever saw this report will need to go into the amd-iommu, make sure it's not a real leak, then change their testing script...
Regards, Michael Wang
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