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SubjectRe: memory leak in vq_meta_prefetch
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 12:18:07PM -0700, syzbot wrote:
> syzbot found the following crash on:
>
> HEAD commit: c6dd78fc Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git...
> git tree: upstream
> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15fffef4600000
> kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=8de7d700ea5ac607
> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a871c1e6ea00685e73d7
> compiler: gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)
> syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=127b0334600000
> C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=12609e94600000
>
> The bug was bisected to:
>
> commit 0e5f7d0b39e1f184dc25e3adb580c79e85332167
> Author: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
> Date: Wed Mar 16 13:19:49 2016 +0000
>
> ARM: dts: at91: shdwc binding: add new shutdown controller documentation

That's another wrong commit identification (a documentation patch should
not cause a memory leak).

I don't really think kmemleak, with its relatively high rate of false
positives, is suitable for automated testing like syzbot. You could
reduce the false positives if you add support for scanning in
stop_machine(). Otherwise, in order to avoid locking the kernel for long
periods, kmemleak runs concurrently with other threads (even on the
current CPU) and under high load, pointers are missed (e.g. they are in
CPU registers rather than stack).

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