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Date:   Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:28:33 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To:     Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@free.fr>
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        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: kmemleak panic
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 04:36:59PM +0100, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/ 
> echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> 
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc021e00000
[...]
> Call trace:
>  scan_block+0x70/0x190
>  scan_gray_list+0x108/0x1c0
>  kmemleak_scan+0x33c/0x7c0
>  kmemleak_write+0x410/0x4b0

As per Robin's remark, this address seems to be pretty easy to
reproduce. It also happens via scan_gray_list() which indicates an
object kmemleak was informed about via kmemleak_alloc() (so this
excludes the pfn that Qian noticed).

Can you configure the kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN off
just to avoid the bug being triggered early and run:

  mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/
  echo dump=0xffffffc021e00000 > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

Then run another scan to make sure this is the address that triggered
the page fault:

  echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

The above should tell us where the object that kmemleak is trying to
scan came from.

Of course, ideally we should bisect this but I haven't been able to
reproduce it.

-- 
Catalin