Re: [RFC] make kmemleak scan __ro_after_init section (was: Re: [PATCH 0/5] genetlink improvements)

From	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Subject	Re: [RFC] make kmemleak scan __ro_after_init section (was: Re: [PATCH 0/5] genetlink improvements)
Date	2016-11-03 21:50 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 11:47:55PM +0000, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> I realized that kmemleak is not scanning the __ro_after_init section...
> Following patch solves the false positives but I wonder if it's the
> right/acceptable solution.

Thanks for putting this together. I actually hit a similar issue on
arm64 but didn't get the chance to fix it (also at LPC). With a proper
commit message, feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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[RFC] make kmemleak scan __ro_after_init section (was: Re: [PATCH  0/5] genetlink improvements) Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl> - 2016-11-03 00:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC] make kmemleak scan __ro_after_init section (was: Re: [PATCH  0/5] genetlink improvements) Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> - 2016-11-03 06:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC] make kmemleak scan __ro_after_init section (was: Re:  [PATCH 0/5] genetlink improvements) Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-11-03 17:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC] make kmemleak scan __ro_after_init section (was: Re:  [PATCH 0/5] genetlink improvements) Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-11-03 21:50 +0100

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