Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2023 18:55:42 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To:     "Isaac J. Manjarres" <isaacmanjarres@google.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
        "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shtuemov@linux.intel.com>,
        Nick Kossifidis <mick@ics.forth.gr>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        kernel-team@android.com,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
        devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        stable@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] of: reserved_mem: Have kmemleak ignore
 dynamically allocated reserved mem
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 03:20:00PM -0800, Isaac J. Manjarres wrote:
> Currently, kmemleak ignores dynamically allocated reserved memory
> regions that don't have a kernel mapping. However, regions that do
> retain a kernel mapping (e.g. CMA regions) do get scanned by kmemleak.
> 
> This is not ideal for two reasons:
> 
> 1. kmemleak works by scanning memory regions for pointers to
> allocated objects to determine if those objects have been leaked
> or not. However, reserved memory regions can be used between drivers
> and peripherals for DMA transfers, and thus, would not contain pointers
> to allocated objects, making it unnecessary for kmemleak to scan
> these reserved memory regions.
> 
> 2. When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is enabled, along with kmemleak, the
> CMA reserved memory regions are unmapped from the kernel's address
> space when they are freed to buddy at boot. These CMA reserved regions
> are still tracked by kmemleak, however, and when kmemleak attempts to
> scan them, a crash will happen, as accessing the CMA region will result
> in a page-fault, since the regions are unmapped.
> 
> Thus, use kmemleak_ignore_phys() for all dynamically allocated reserved
> memory regions, instead of those that do not have a kernel mapping
> associated with them.
> 
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>    # 5.15+
> Fixes: a7259df76702 ("memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private")
> Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres <isaacmanjarres@google.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>