Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755278AbdGCRHb (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 13:07:31 -0400 Received: from smtp-fw-6001.amazon.com ([52.95.48.154]:50269 "EHLO smtp-fw-6001.amazon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755236AbdGCRH3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 13:07:29 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.40,304,1496102400"; d="scan'208";a="296189032" From: Eduardo Valentin To: Stephen Hemminger , "David S . Miller" CC: , , , Eduardo Valentin , "stable # v4 . 9+" Subject: [PATCH 1/1] bridge: mdb: report complete_info ptr as not a kmemleak Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 10:06:34 -0700 Message-ID: <1499101594-22421-1-git-send-email-eduval@amazon.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2552 Lines: 58 We currently get the following kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xffff8800039d9820 (size 32): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4295212383 (age 792.416s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 0c e0 03 00 88 ff ff ff 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 01 ff 11 00 02 86 dd 00 00 ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: [] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 [] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xb8/0x1c0 [] __br_mdb_notify+0x2a3/0x300 [bridge] [] br_mdb_notify+0x6e/0x70 [bridge] [] br_multicast_add_group+0x109/0x150 [bridge] [] br_ip6_multicast_add_group+0x58/0x60 [bridge] [] br_multicast_rcv+0x1d5/0xdb0 [bridge] [] br_handle_frame_finish+0xcf/0x510 [bridge] [] br_nf_hook_thresh.part.27+0xb/0x10 [br_netfilter] [] br_nf_hook_thresh+0x48/0xb0 [br_netfilter] [] br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x109/0x1d0 [br_netfilter] [] br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0xd0/0x14c [br_netfilter] [] br_nf_pre_routing+0x197/0x3d0 [br_netfilter] [] nf_iterate+0x52/0x60 [] nf_hook_slow+0x5c/0xb0 [] br_handle_frame+0x1a4/0x2c0 [bridge] This patch flags the complete_info ptr object as not a leak as it will get freed when .complete_priv() is called, for the br mdb case, it will be freed at br_mdb_complete(). Cc: stable # v4.9+ Reviewed-by: Vallish Vaidyeshwara Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin --- net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c index b084548..1c81546 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -319,6 +320,8 @@ static void __br_mdb_notify(struct net_device *dev, struct net_bridge_port *p, if (port_dev && type == RTM_NEWMDB) { complete_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*complete_info), GFP_ATOMIC); if (complete_info) { + /* This pointer is freed in br_mdb_complete() */ + kmemleak_not_leak(complete_info); complete_info->port = p; __mdb_entry_to_br_ip(entry, &complete_info->ip); mdb.obj.complete_priv = complete_info; -- 2.7.4