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Date:   Tue, 7 May 2019 14:51:16 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@toshiba.co.jp>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 62/99] kmemleak: powerpc: skip scanning holes in the
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On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 04:58:09PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 04:32:35PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > [ Upstream commit 298a32b132087550d3fa80641ca58323c5dfd4d9 ]
> > 
> > Commit 2d4f567103ff ("KVM: PPC: Introduce kvm_tmp framework") adds
> > kvm_tmp[] into the .bss section and then free the rest of unused spaces
> > back to the page allocator.
> > 
> > kernel_init
> >   kvm_guest_init
> >     kvm_free_tmp
> >       free_reserved_area
> >         free_unref_page
> >           free_unref_page_prepare
> > 
> > With DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y, it will unmap those pages from kernel.  As the
> > result, kmemleak scan will trigger a panic when it scans the .bss
> > section with unmapped pages.
> > 
> > This patch creates dedicated kmemleak objects for the .data, .bss and
> > potentially .data..ro_after_init sections to allow partial freeing via
> > the kmemleak_free_part() in the powerpc kvm_free_tmp() function.
> > 
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190321171917.62049-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com
> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> > Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> > Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
> > Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> > Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c |  7 +++++++
> >  mm/kmemleak.c             | 16 +++++++++++-----
> >  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> This commit has other problems, so we also need the following commits:
> 
> commit dce5b0bdeec61bdbee56121ceb1d014151d5cab1
> Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Date:   Thu Apr 18 17:50:48 2019 -0700
> 
>     mm/kmemleak.c: fix unused-function warning
> 
>     The only references outside of the #ifdef have been removed, so now we
>     get a warning in non-SMP configurations:
> 
>       mm/kmemleak.c:1404:13: error: unused function 'scan_large_block' [-Werror,-Wunused-function]
> 
>     Add a new #ifdef around it.
> 
>     Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190416123148.3502045-1-arnd@arndb.de
>     Fixes: 298a32b13208 ("kmemleak: powerpc: skip scanning holes in the .bss section")
>     Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>     Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
>     Cc: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
>     Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> Please apply this commit.

Now queued up, thanks!

greg k-h