Re: kmemleak in apei_res_add

From: Alexandra N. Kossovsky
Date: Wed Aug 21 2013 - 09:45:20 EST


On Aug 21 10:38, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 12 August 2013 03:45, Alexandra N. Kossovsky
> <Alexandra.Kossovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When running 3.10.3 with kmemleak enabled, I see following warnings from
> > kmemleak:
> >
> > unreferenced object 0xffff88024d2219a0 (size 32):
> > comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294894532 (age 26865.180s)
> > hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> > 58 de 0c 73 02 88 ff ff 58 de 0c 73 02 88 ff ff X..s....X..s....
> > 18 50 fd 7d 00 00 00 00 3f 50 fd 7d 00 00 00 00 .P.}....?P.}....
> > backtrace:
> > [<ffffffff813ddf40>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x3e
> > [<ffffffff8111cb99>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive.constprop.58+0x16/0x18
> > [<ffffffff8111efac>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xe6/0x12f
> > [<ffffffff81278f0e>] apei_res_add+0xb9/0xe8
> > [<ffffffff81278faa>] collect_res_callback+0x6d/0x7c
> > [<ffffffff812788ed>] apei_exec_for_each_entry+0x78/0x93
> > [<ffffffff8127891d>] apei_exec_collect_resources+0x15/0x17
> > [<ffffffff81b010e5>] erst_init+0x278/0x2a3
> > [<ffffffff810020b5>] do_one_initcall+0x7b/0x116
> > [<ffffffff81ac9ee7>] kernel_init_freeable+0x13f/0x1cc
> > [<ffffffff813db19f>] kernel_init+0x9/0xd6
> > [<ffffffff813fe5bc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> > [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> Are there any "APEI:" errors in the kernel log? It could be some
> freeing missing on an error path.

No.
dmesg |grep APEI
[ 9.602274] GHES: APEI firmware first mode is enabled by APEI bit and WHEA _OSC.


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Alexandra N. Kossovsky
OKTET Labs (http://www.oktetlabs.ru/)
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