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Subject[PATCH] kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks
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Kmemleak considers any pointers as task stacks as references.
This patch clears newly allocated and reused vmap stacks.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
---
include/linux/thread_info.h | 2 +-
kernel/fork.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
index 905d769d8ddc..5f7eeab990fe 100644
--- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
+++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ enum {
#define THREAD_ALIGN THREAD_SIZE
#endif

-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK)
# define THREADINFO_GFP (GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_NOTRACK | \
__GFP_ZERO)
#else
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c4ff0303b7c5..53e3b6f8a3bf 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -213,6 +213,10 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
if (!s)
continue;

+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ /* Clear stale pointers from reused stack. */
+ memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
+#endif
tsk->stack_vm_area = s;
return s->addr;
}
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