Commit 8f0b3d69 authored Apr 14, 2014 by Bruce Levy Committed by Stepan Moskovchenko Jul 08, 2015

proc: Ignore kmemleak false positive in __proc_create



kzalloc() in __proc_create() allocates memory for procfs entries.
Since many procfs entries will never be removed, memory associated
with them may never be freed.  Ensures that kmemleak does not consider
this memory as having been leaked.

Change-Id: Ifbfb228a61d12e551b229df3c0c094891ac9c6a4
Signed-off-by: Bruce Levy <blevy@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>

parent 81e1da90

fs/proc/generic.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
		#include <linux/spinlock.h>
		#include <linux/completion.h>
		#include <asm/uaccess.h>
		#include <linux/kmemleak.h>

		#include "internal.h"

		@@ -350,6 +351,7 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry __proc_create(struct proc_dir_entry *parent,
		if (!ent)
		goto out;

		kmemleak_not_leak(ent);
		memcpy(ent->name, fn, qstr.len + 1);
		ent->namelen = qstr.len;
		ent->mode = mode;