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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2013-05-15 19:46:23 (GMT)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2013-05-17 08:53:36 (GMT)
commit89c837351db0b9b52fd572ec8b0445a42e59b75c (patch)
tree8ca801aa87cc74ce286c6e75b010752e409f4856 /kernel
parent06c9494c0e9bdfcaa14d6d2b096a0ff7abe8494f (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-89c837351db0b9b52fd572ec8b0445a42e59b75c.tar.xz
kmemleak: No need for scanning specific module sections
As kmemleak now scans all module sections that are allocated, writable and non executable, there's no need to scan individual sections that might reference data. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c13
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 06f496a..cab4bce 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2769,24 +2769,11 @@ static void find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
mod->trace_events = section_objs(info, "_ftrace_events",
sizeof(*mod->trace_events),
&mod->num_trace_events);
- /*
- * This section contains pointers to allocated objects in the trace
- * code and not scanning it leads to false positives.
- */
- kmemleak_scan_area(mod->trace_events, sizeof(*mod->trace_events) *
- mod->num_trace_events, GFP_KERNEL);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start = section_objs(info, "__trace_printk_fmt",
sizeof(*mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start),
&mod->num_trace_bprintk_fmt);
- /*
- * This section contains pointers to allocated objects in the trace
- * code and not scanning it leads to false positives.
- */
- kmemleak_scan_area(mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start,
- sizeof(*mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start) *
- mod->num_trace_bprintk_fmt, GFP_KERNEL);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
/* sechdrs[0].sh_size is always zero */