[regression] tracing: kmemleak warning in allocate_cmdlines_buffer()

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Wed Feb 14 2024 - 07:52:51 EST


Hi Steven,

I upgraded our ath11k test setup to v6.8-rc4 and noticed a new kmemleak
warning in the log:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881010c8000 (size 32760):
comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294667296
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
backtrace (crc ae6ec1b9):
[<ffffffff86722405>] kmemleak_alloc+0x45/0x80
[<ffffffff8414028d>] __kmalloc_large_node+0x10d/0x190
[<ffffffff84146ab1>] __kmalloc+0x3b1/0x4c0
[<ffffffff83ed7103>] allocate_cmdlines_buffer+0x113/0x230
[<ffffffff88649c34>] tracer_alloc_buffers.isra.0+0x124/0x460
[<ffffffff8864a174>] early_trace_init+0x14/0xa0
[<ffffffff885dd5ae>] start_kernel+0x12e/0x3c0
[<ffffffff885f5758>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x18/0x30
[<ffffffff885f582b>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x7b/0x80
[<ffffffff83a001c3>] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x15e/0x16b

I don't see this warning in v6.8-rc3 and also reverting commit
44dc5c41b5b1 ("tracing: Fix wasted memory in saved_cmdlines logic")
makes the warning go away. Let me know if you need more info or help
with testing, I see the warning every time so it's easy to reproduce.

Kalle