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s390/smp: fix false positive kmemleak of mcesa data structure
authorChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Thu, 18 May 2017 11:04:16 +0000 (13:04 +0200)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:25:58 +0000 (16:25 +0200)
commit9cf8edb7a33b7689d4c3429b1d339d29e7c3db86
tree58e7a42f25ae6d136e47e87dee86d339d2e3313b
parentac994e80f94f440138774830f2edf148d6ece1f3
s390/smp: fix false positive kmemleak of mcesa data structure

I get number of CPUs - 1 kmemleak hits like

unreferenced object 0x37ec6f000 (size 1024):
  comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294937330 (age 889.690s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
    6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
  backtrace:
    [<000000000034a848>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2b8/0x3d0
    [<00000000001164de>] __cpu_up+0x456/0x488
    [<000000000016f60c>] bringup_cpu+0x4c/0xd0
    [<000000000016d5d2>] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0xe2/0x9e8
    [<000000000016f3c6>] cpuhp_up_callbacks+0x5e/0x110
    [<000000000016f988>] _cpu_up+0xe0/0x158
    [<000000000016faf0>] do_cpu_up+0xf0/0x110
    [<0000000000dae1ee>] smp_init+0x126/0x130
    [<0000000000d9bd04>] kernel_init_freeable+0x174/0x2e0
    [<000000000089fc62>] kernel_init+0x2a/0x148
    [<00000000008adce2>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
    [<00000000008adcdc>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

The pointer of this data structure is stored in the prefix page of that
CPU together with some extra bits ORed into the the low bits.
Mark the data structure as non-leak.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
arch/s390/kernel/smp.c