Commit 7591c127 authored by Catalin Marinas's avatar Catalin Marinas Committed by Andrew Morton
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kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive

The introduction of iova_depot_pop() in 911aa124 ("iommu/iova: Make
the rcache depot scale better") confused kmemleak by moving a struct
iova_magazine object from a singly linked list to rcache->depot and
resetting the 'next' pointer referencing it.  Unlike doubly linked lists,
the content of the object being referred is never changed on removal from
a singly linked list and the kmemleak checksum heuristics do not detect
such scenario.  This leads to false positives like:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881a5301000 (size 1024):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4306297099 (age 462.991s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e7 7d 05 00 00 00 00 00  .........}......
    0f b4 05 00 00 00 00 00 b4 96 05 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff819f5f08>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e8/0x320
    [<ffffffff818a239a>] kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0x60
    [<ffffffff8231d31e>] free_iova_fast+0x28e/0x4e0
    [<ffffffff82310860>] fq_ring_free_locked+0x1b0/0x310
    [<ffffffff8231225d>] fq_flush_timeout+0x19d/0x2e0
    [<ffffffff813e95ba>] call_timer_fn+0x19a/0x5c0
    [<ffffffff813ea16b>] __run_timers+0x78b/0xb80
    [<ffffffff813ea5bd>] run_timer_softirq+0x5d/0xd0
    [<ffffffff82f1d915>] __do_softirq+0x205/0x8b5

Introduce kmemleak_transient_leak() which resets the object checksum
requiring another scan pass before it is reported (if still unreferenced).
Call this new API in iova_depot_pop().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104111944.2207155-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZY1osaGLyT-sdKE8@shredder/


Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
Tested-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRobin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent da0c0251
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