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When loading a module, as long as the module has memory allocation
operations, kmemleak produces a false positive report that resembles the
following:
unreferenced object (percpu) 0x7dfd232a1650 (size 16):
comm "modprobe", pid 1301, jiffies 4294940249
hex dump (first 16 bytes on cpu 2):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 0):
kmemleak_alloc_percpu+0xb4/0xd0
pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x700/0x1098
load_module+0xd4/0x348
codetag_module_init+0x20c/0x450
codetag_load_module+0x70/0xb8
load_module+0xef8/0x1608
init_module_from_file+0xec/0x158
idempotent_init_module+0x354/0x608
__arm64_sys_finit_module+0xbc/0x150
invoke_syscall+0xd4/0x258
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb4/0x240
do_el0_svc+0x48/0x68
el0_svc+0x40/0xf8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x10c/0x138
el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
This is because the module can only indirectly reference
alloc_tag_counters through the alloc_tag section, which misleads kmemleak.
However, we don't have a kmemleak ignore interface for percpu allocations
yet. So let's create one and invoke it for tag->counters.
[gehao@kylinos.cn: fix build error when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=n, s/igonore/ignore/]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250620093102.2416767-1-hao.ge@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250619183154.2122608-1-hao.ge@linux.dev
Fixes: 12ca42c237 ("alloc_tag: allocate percpu counters for module tags dynamically")
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <gehao@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> [lib/alloc_tag.c]
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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