kmemleak: allow freeing internal objects after kmemleak was disabled
Currently if kmemleak is disabled, the kmemleak objects can never be
freed, no matter if it's disabled by a user or due to fatal errors.
Those objects can be a big waste of memory.
OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME
1200264 1197433 99% 0.30K 46164 26 369312K kmemleak_object
With this patch, after kmemleak was disabled you can reclaim memory
with:
# echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
Also inform users about this with a printk.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 474379e..06cd220 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1600,6 +1600,8 @@
kmemleak_found_leaks = false;
}
+static void __kmemleak_do_cleanup(void);
+
/*
* File write operation to configure kmemleak at run-time. The following
* commands can be written to the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file:
@@ -1612,7 +1614,8 @@
* disable it)
* scan - trigger a memory scan
* clear - mark all current reported unreferenced kmemleak objects as
- * grey to ignore printing them
+ * grey to ignore printing them, or free all kmemleak objects
+ * if kmemleak has been disabled.
* dump=... - dump information about the object found at the given address
*/
static ssize_t kmemleak_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
@@ -1622,9 +1625,6 @@
int buf_size;
int ret;
- if (!atomic_read(&kmemleak_enabled))
- return -EBUSY;
-
buf_size = min(size, (sizeof(buf) - 1));
if (strncpy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size) < 0)
return -EFAULT;
@@ -1634,6 +1634,19 @@
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
+ if (strncmp(buf, "clear", 5) == 0) {
+ if (atomic_read(&kmemleak_enabled))
+ kmemleak_clear();
+ else
+ __kmemleak_do_cleanup();
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ if (!atomic_read(&kmemleak_enabled)) {
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (strncmp(buf, "off", 3) == 0)
kmemleak_disable();
else if (strncmp(buf, "stack=on", 8) == 0)
@@ -1657,8 +1670,6 @@
}
} else if (strncmp(buf, "scan", 4) == 0)
kmemleak_scan();
- else if (strncmp(buf, "clear", 5) == 0)
- kmemleak_clear();
else if (strncmp(buf, "dump=", 5) == 0)
ret = dump_str_object_info(buf + 5);
else
@@ -1683,6 +1694,16 @@
.release = kmemleak_release,
};
+static void __kmemleak_do_cleanup(void)
+{
+ struct kmemleak_object *object;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(object, &object_list, object_list)
+ delete_object_full(object->pointer);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
/*
* Stop the memory scanning thread and free the kmemleak internal objects if
* no previous scan thread (otherwise, kmemleak may still have some useful
@@ -1690,17 +1711,14 @@
*/
static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
{
- struct kmemleak_object *object;
-
mutex_lock(&scan_mutex);
stop_scan_thread();
- if (!kmemleak_found_leaks) {
- rcu_read_lock();
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(object, &object_list, object_list)
- delete_object_full(object->pointer);
- rcu_read_unlock();
- }
+ if (!kmemleak_found_leaks)
+ __kmemleak_do_cleanup();
+ else
+ pr_info("Kmemleak disabled without freeing internal data. "
+ "Reclaim the memory with \"echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\"\n");
mutex_unlock(&scan_mutex);
}