mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects
Commit 248ac0e1 ("mm/vmalloc: remove guard page from between vmap blocks") had the side effect of making vmap_area.va_end member point to the next vmap_area.va_start. This was creating an artificial reference to vmalloc'ed objects and kmemleak was rarely reporting vmalloc() leaks. This patch marks the vmap_area containing pointers explicitly and reduces the min ref_count to 2 as vm_struct still contains a reference to the vmalloc'ed object. The kmemleak add_scan_area() function has been improved to allow a SIZE_MAX argument covering the rest of the object (for simpler calling sites). Change-Id: I237dd983d000c956ede36b5492dfe046a3060ce4 Signed-off-by:Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Git-commit: 7f88f88f83ed609650a01b18572e605ea50cd163 Git-repo: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ Signed-off-by:
Vignesh Radhakrishnan <vigneshr@codeaurora.org>
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