From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:58:22 +0000 (-0700) Subject: kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ca182551857cc2c1e6a2b7f1e72090a137a15008;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks Kmemleak considers any pointers on task stacks as references. This patch clears newly allocated and reused vmap stacks. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150728990124.744199.8403409836394318684.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- 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 e702cb9ffbd8..07cc743698d3 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ 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; }