Commit a6f5aa1e authored by Catalin Marinas's avatar Catalin Marinas

kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules

This section contains pointers to allocated objects and not scanning it
leads to false positives.
Reported-by: default avatarZdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent c017b4be
......@@ -2380,6 +2380,12 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
"_ftrace_events",
sizeof(*mod->trace_events),
&mod->num_trace_events);
/*
* This section contains pointers to allocated objects in the trace
* code and not scanning it leads to false positives.
*/
kmemleak_scan_area(mod->trace_events, sizeof(*mod->trace_events) *
mod->num_trace_events, GFP_KERNEL);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
/* sechdrs[0].sh_size is always zero */
......
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