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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2013-10-14 11:38:45 +0400 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2013-10-17 04:25:35 +0400 |
| commit | bb478d8b167cf875565ac7d927ffbdc0b6d280e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 896308db8cb966bb6e92a1664fd3a1a939d67814 /drivers/virtio | |
| parent | 891070003999e7ac8881bba6f8242615382742eb (diff) | |
| download | linux-bb478d8b167cf875565ac7d927ffbdc0b6d280e8.tar.xz | |
virtio_ring: plug kmemleak false positive.
unreferenced object 0xffff88003d467e20 (size 32):
comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4295197765 (age 6.364s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
28 19 bf 3d 00 00 00 00 0c 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 (..=............
02 dc 51 3c 00 00 00 00 56 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..Q<....V.......
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8152db19>] kmemleak_alloc+0x59/0xc0
[<ffffffff81102e93>] __kmalloc+0xf3/0x180
[<ffffffff812db5d6>] vring_add_indirect+0x36/0x280
[<ffffffff812dc59f>] virtqueue_add_outbuf+0xbf/0x4e0
[<ffffffff813a8b30>] start_xmit+0x1a0/0x3b0
[<ffffffff81445861>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x2d1/0x4d0
[<ffffffff81460052>] sch_direct_xmit+0xf2/0x1c0
[<ffffffff81445c28>] dev_queue_xmit+0x1c8/0x460
[<ffffffff814e3187>] ip6_finish_output2+0x1d7/0x470
[<ffffffff814e34b0>] ip6_finish_output+0x90/0xb0
[<ffffffff814e3507>] ip6_output+0x37/0xb0
[<ffffffff815021eb>] igmp6_send+0x2db/0x470
[<ffffffff81502645>] igmp6_timer_handler+0x95/0xa0
[<ffffffff8104b57c>] call_timer_fn+0x2c/0x90
[<ffffffff8104b7ba>] run_timer_softirq+0x1da/0x1f0
[<ffffffff81045721>] __do_softirq+0xd1/0x1b0
Address gets embedded in a descriptor via virt_to_phys(). See detach_buf,
which frees it:
if (vq->vring.desc[i].flags & VRING_DESC_F_INDIRECT)
kfree(phys_to_virt(vq->vring.desc[i].addr));
Reported-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Fix-suggested-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Typing-done-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virtio')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c index 6b4a4db4404d..6547d46171b3 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c @@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ static inline int vring_add_indirect(struct vring_virtqueue *vq, head = vq->free_head; vq->vring.desc[head].flags = VRING_DESC_F_INDIRECT; vq->vring.desc[head].addr = virt_to_phys(desc); + /* kmemleak gives a false positive, as it's hidden by virt_to_phys */ + kmemleak_ignore(desc); vq->vring.desc[head].len = i * sizeof(struct vring_desc); /* Update free pointer */ |