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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2013-05-15 20:46:23 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2013-05-17 09:53:36 +0100
commit89c837351db0b9b52fd572ec8b0445a42e59b75c (patch)
tree8ca801aa87cc74ce286c6e75b010752e409f4856 /kernel/module.c
parent06c9494c0e9bdfcaa14d6d2b096a0ff7abe8494f (diff)
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/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c13
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 06f496a5d182..cab4bce49c23 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 */