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Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for kmemleak

From Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for kmemleak
Date 2015-12-02 14:20 +0100
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Hi, Borislav

On 12/02/2015 02:13 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:01:55PM +0100, Michael Wang wrote:
>> Yeah.. it's a little complicated since we have our own kernel tree and this
>> won't be a problem for us, but we really prefer to help fix it in mainline
>> too, as long as this is really a defect, so others could save time on research
>> in future.
> 
> Well, to keep it realistic and if it were me, I wouldn't even take such
> a fix as it is apparently kmemleak's problem.

Do you mean this could be a real kmemleak? Could you please provide more details?

> 
> So you could fix your testing instead to ignore that error message now
> that you know it is a false-positive. That should be easiest.
> 

Yeah, but it would be better to solve it, otherwise whoever saw this report
will need to go into the amd-iommu, make sure it's not a real leak, then
change their testing script...

Regards,
Michael Wang
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Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-02 11:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-02 12:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-02 12:40 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2015-12-02 13:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-02 13:40 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2015-12-02 14:00 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-02 14:10 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-12-02 14:00 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-02 14:10 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-02 14:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-02 14:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-12-02 15:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-02 15:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-12-02 15:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-02 15:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for kmemleak Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 18:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-12-02 19:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> - 2015-12-03 09:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-12-02 14:50 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-12-02 14:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for kmemleak Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 12:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for kmemleak Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 12:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2] iommu/amd: gray the 'irq_remap_table' object for  kmemleak Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2015-12-02 12:20 +0100

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