[PATCH] mm/kmemleak: Do not skip stack frames

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Tue Oct 21 2014 - 08:19:38 EST


From: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>

Trying to chase down memory leaks is much easier when the complete stack
trace is available.

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
It seems like this was initially set to 1 when merged in commit
3c7b4e6b8be4 (kmemleak: Add the base support) and later increased to 2
in commit fd6789675ebf (kmemleak: Save the stack trace for early
allocations). Perhaps there was a reason to skip the first few frames,
but I've certainly found it difficult to find leaks when the stack trace
doesn't point at the proper location.
---
mm/kmemleak.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 3cda50c1e394..55d9ad0f40d4 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ static int __save_stack_trace(unsigned long *trace)
stack_trace.max_entries = MAX_TRACE;
stack_trace.nr_entries = 0;
stack_trace.entries = trace;
- stack_trace.skip = 2;
+ stack_trace.skip = 0;
save_stack_trace(&stack_trace);

return stack_trace.nr_entries;
--
2.1.2

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