Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: kmemleak: Track the page allocations for struct request | From | Jens Axboe <> | Date | Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:21:58 -0600 |
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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 <catalin.marinas@arm.com> > Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> > Tested-by: Bart Van Assche<bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> > Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> > --- > > Jens, > > I just realised that no-one has picked this patch up for -rc1. It was > discussed here previously: > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150803104309.GB4033@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com > > 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.
-- Jens Axboe
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