[PATCH RFC 07/10] kfence, kmemleak: make KFENCE compatible with KMEMLEAK

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 03:40:52PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> From: Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>
> 
> Add compatibility with KMEMLEAK, by making KMEMLEAK aware of the KFENCE
> memory pool. This allows building debug kernels with both enabled, which
> also helped in debugging KFENCE.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>
> ---
>  mm/kmemleak.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
> index 5e252d91eb14..2809c25c0a88 100644
> --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
> +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
>  #include <linux/atomic.h>
>  
>  #include <linux/kasan.h>
> +#include <linux/kfence.h>
>  #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
>  #include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
>  
> @@ -1946,8 +1947,18 @@ void __init kmemleak_init(void)
>  	/* register the data/bss sections */
>  	create_object((unsigned long)_sdata, _edata - _sdata,
>  		      KMEMLEAK_GREY, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +#if defined(CONFIG_KFENCE) && defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE_STATIC_POOL)
> +	/* KFENCE objects are located in .bss, which may confuse kmemleak. Skip them. */
> +	create_object((unsigned long)__bss_start, __kfence_pool - __bss_start,
> +		      KMEMLEAK_GREY, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	create_object((unsigned long)__kfence_pool + KFENCE_POOL_SIZE,
> +		      __bss_stop - (__kfence_pool + KFENCE_POOL_SIZE),
> +		      KMEMLEAK_GREY, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +#else
>  	create_object((unsigned long)__bss_start, __bss_stop - __bss_start,
>  		      KMEMLEAK_GREY, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +#endif

Could you instead do:

#if defined(CONFIG_KFENCE) && defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE_STATIC_POOL)
	delete_object_part((unsigned long)__kfence_pool, KFENCE_POOL_SIZE);
#endif

-- 
Catalin