Re: Question about memory leak detector giving false positive report for net/core/flow.c

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>

@@ -709,6 +710,8 @@ static void __percpu *pcpu_alloc(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved)
 	const char *err;
 	int slot, off, new_alloc;
 	unsigned long flags;
+	void __percpu *ptr;
+	unsigned int cpu;
 
 	if (unlikely(!size || size > PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE || align > PAGE_SIZE)) {
 		WARN(true, "illegal size (%zu) or align (%zu) for "

@@ -801,7 +804,16 @@ area_found:
 	mutex_unlock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
 
 	/* return address relative to base address */
-	return __addr_to_pcpu_ptr(chunk->base_addr + off);
+	ptr = __addr_to_pcpu_ptr(chunk->base_addr + off);
+
+	/*
+	 * Percpu allocations are currently reported as leaks (kmemleak false
+	 * positives). To avoid this, just set min_count to 0.
+	 */
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+		kmemleak_alloc(per_cpu_ptr(ptr, cpu), size, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	return ptr;
 
 fail_unlock:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pcpu_lock, flags);

@@ -911,10 +923,14 @@ void free_percpu(void __percpu *ptr)
 	struct pcpu_chunk *chunk;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int off;
+	unsigned int cpu;
 
 	if (!ptr)
 		return;
 
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+		kmemleak_free(per_cpu_ptr(ptr, cpu));
+
 	addr = __pcpu_ptr_to_addr(ptr);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags);

@@ -1619,6 +1635,8 @@ int __init pcpu_embed_first_chunk(size_t reserved_size, size_t dyn_size,
 			rc = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out_free_areas;
 		}
+		/* kmemleak tracks the percpu allocations separately */
+		kmemleak_free(ptr);
 		areas[group] = ptr;
 
 		base = min(ptr, base);

@@ -1733,6 +1751,8 @@ int __init pcpu_page_first_chunk(size_t reserved_size,
 					   "for cpu%u\n", psize_str, cpu);
 				goto enomem;
 			}
+			/* kmemleak tracks the percpu allocations separately */
+			kmemleak_free(ptr);
 			pages[j++] = virt_to_page(ptr);
 		}