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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module/main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module/main.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c index 5cc21083af04..32554d8a5791 100644 --- a/kernel/module/main.c +++ b/kernel/module/main.c @@ -2231,13 +2231,18 @@ static int move_module(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) } mod->mem[type].size = PAGE_ALIGN(mod->mem[type].size); ptr = module_memory_alloc(mod->mem[type].size, type); - /* - * The pointer to this block is stored in the module structure - * which is inside the block. Just mark it as not being a - * leak. + * The pointer to these blocks of memory are stored on the module + * structure and we keep that around so long as the module is + * around. We only free that memory when we unload the module. + * Just mark them as not being a leak then. The .init* ELF + * sections *do* get freed after boot so we *could* treat them + * slightly differently with kmemleak_ignore() and only grey + * them out as they work as typical memory allocations which + * *do* eventually get freed, but let's just keep things simple + * and avoid *any* false positives. */ - kmemleak_ignore(ptr); + kmemleak_not_leak(ptr); if (!ptr) { t = type; goto out_enomem; |