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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 15:02:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171006140229.p5be6n6peafqasgl@armageddon.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150728990124.744199.8403409836394318684.stgit@buzz>

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:38:21PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Kmemleak considers any pointers as task stacks as references.
                                  ^^
				  on

> This patch clears newly allocated and reused vmap stacks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
> ---
>  include/linux/thread_info.h |    2 +-
>  kernel/fork.c               |    4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
> index 905d769d8ddc..5f7eeab990fe 100644
> --- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
> +++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ enum {
>  #define THREAD_ALIGN	THREAD_SIZE
>  #endif
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK)
>  # define THREADINFO_GFP		(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_NOTRACK | \
>  				 __GFP_ZERO)
>  #else
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index c4ff0303b7c5..53e3b6f8a3bf 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -213,6 +213,10 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
>  		if (!s)
>  			continue;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
> +		/* Clear stale pointers from reused stack. */
> +		memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
> +#endif
>  		tsk->stack_vm_area = s;
>  		return s->addr;
>  	}

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-10-06 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-06 11:38 [PATCH] kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks Konstantin Khlebnikov
2017-10-06 14:02 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]

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