mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping

Some of the kmemleak_*() callbacks in memblock, bootmem, CMA convert a
physical address to a virtual one using __va().  However, such physical
addresses may sometimes be located in highmem and using __va() is
incorrect, leading to inconsistent object tracking in kmemleak.

The following functions have been added to the kmemleak API and they take
a physical address as the object pointer.  They only perform the
corresponding action if the address has a lowmem mapping:

kmemleak_alloc_phys
kmemleak_free_part_phys
kmemleak_not_leak_phys
kmemleak_ignore_phys

The affected calling places have been updated to use the new kmemleak
API.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471531432-16503-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst
index 1788722d5495..b2391b829169 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst
@@ -162,6 +162,15 @@ See the include/linux/kmemleak.h header for the functions prototype.
 - ``kmemleak_alloc_recursive`` - as kmemleak_alloc but checks the recursiveness
 - ``kmemleak_free_recursive``    - as kmemleak_free but checks the recursiveness
 
+The following functions take a physical address as the object pointer
+and only perform the corresponding action if the address has a lowmem
+mapping:
+
+- ``kmemleak_alloc_phys``
+- ``kmemleak_free_part_phys``
+- ``kmemleak_not_leak_phys``
+- ``kmemleak_ignore_phys``
+
 Dealing with false positives/negatives
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