Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/mem_encrypt: fix a crash with kmemleak_scan

From: Qian Cai
Date: Tue Apr 23 2019 - 10:16:52 EST


On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 15:25 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> So I guess free_init_pages() should be somehow telling kmemleak, "hey,
> just freed that object, pls adjust your tracking lists" no?
>
> Because, otherwise, if we start sprinkling those kmemleak_free_part()
> calls everywhere, that'll quickly turn into a game of whack-a-mole. And
> we don't need that especially if kmemleak can easily be taught to handle
> such cases.

In reality, this is only the second place that needs this kmemleak_free_part()
call for all those years since kmemleak was born.