linux/arch/x86
Anton Altaparmakov e3f269ed0a x86/pm: Work around false positive kmemleak report in msr_build_context()
Since:

  7ee18d6779 ("x86/power: Make restore_processor_context() sane")

kmemleak reports this issue:

  unreferenced object 0xf68241e0 (size 32):
    comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294668610 (age 68.432s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      00 cc cc cc 29 10 01 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....)...........
      00 42 82 f6 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc  .B..............
    backtrace:
      [<461c1d50>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x106/0x260
      [<ea65e13b>] __kmalloc+0x54/0x160
      [<c3858cd2>] msr_build_context.constprop.0+0x35/0x100
      [<46635aff>] pm_check_save_msr+0x63/0x80
      [<6b6bb938>] do_one_initcall+0x41/0x1f0
      [<3f3add60>] kernel_init_freeable+0x199/0x1e8
      [<3b538fde>] kernel_init+0x1a/0x110
      [<938ae2b2>] ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x28

Which is a false positive.

Reproducer:

  - Run rsync of whole kernel tree (multiple times if needed).
  - start a kmemleak scan
  - Note this is just an example: a lot of our internal tests hit these.

The root cause is similar to the fix in:

  b0b592cf08 x86/pm: Fix false positive kmemleak report in msr_build_context()

ie. the alignment within the packed struct saved_context
which has everything unaligned as there is only "u16 gs;" at start of
struct where in the past there were four u16 there thus aligning
everything afterwards.  The issue is with the fact that Kmemleak only
searches for pointers that are aligned (see how pointers are scanned in
kmemleak.c) so when the struct members are not aligned it doesn't see
them.

Testing:

We run a lot of tests with our CI, and after applying this fix we do not
see any kmemleak issues any more whilst without it we see hundreds of
the above report. From a single, simple test run consisting of 416 individual test
cases on kernel 5.10 x86 with kmemleak enabled we got 20 failures due to this,
which is quite a lot. With this fix applied we get zero kmemleak related failures.

Fixes: 7ee18d6779 ("x86/power: Make restore_processor_context() sane")
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240314142656.17699-1-anton@tuxera.com
2024-03-22 11:01:31 +01:00
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coco x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code 2024-02-06 16:38:42 +01:00
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crypto This update includes the following changes: 2024-01-10 12:23:43 -08:00
entry Core x86 changes for v6.9: 2024-03-11 19:53:15 -07:00
events perf/x86/amd/core: Avoid register reset when CPU is dead 2024-03-13 11:01:30 +01:00
hyperv Rework of APIC enumeration and topology evaluation: 2024-03-11 15:45:55 -07:00
ia32
include x86/pm: Work around false positive kmemleak report in msr_build_context() 2024-03-22 11:01:31 +01:00
kernel x86/kexec: Do not update E820 kexec table for setup_data 2024-03-22 10:07:45 +01:00
kvm S390: 2024-03-15 13:03:13 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'linus' into x86/boot, to resolve conflict 2024-03-12 09:55:57 +01:00
math-emu
mm - Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames 2024-03-14 17:43:30 -07:00
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purgatory x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETPOLINE => CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE 2024-01-10 10:52:28 +01:00
ras
realmode x86/trampoline: Bypass compat mode in trampoline_start64() if not needed 2024-02-23 08:40:29 -08:00
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.gitignore
Kbuild x86/sev: Add SEV-SNP host initialization support 2024-01-29 17:20:23 +01:00
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Kconfig.assembler
Kconfig.cpu x86/Kconfig: Transmeta Crusoe is CPU family 5, not 6 2024-02-09 16:28:19 +01:00
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