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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-06-11 08:24:13 -0400
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-06-11 12:04:18 -0400
commit2e1483c995bbd0fa6cbd055ad76088a520799ba4 (patch)
tree4b555ae3452a80e3cebd7adcab83b019d1ca1b60 /drivers/char
parent4f2294b6dc88d99295230d97fef2c9863cec44c3 (diff)
kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but they are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them. For more information on false positives, see Documentation/kmemleak.txt. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/vt.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 08151d4de489..961c1a788c61 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
104#include <linux/io.h> 104#include <linux/io.h>
105#include <asm/system.h> 105#include <asm/system.h>
106#include <linux/uaccess.h> 106#include <linux/uaccess.h>
107#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
107 108
108#define MAX_NR_CON_DRIVER 16 109#define MAX_NR_CON_DRIVER 16
109 110
@@ -2880,6 +2881,12 @@ static int __init con_init(void)
2880 */ 2881 */
2881 for (currcons = 0; currcons < MIN_NR_CONSOLES; currcons++) { 2882 for (currcons = 0; currcons < MIN_NR_CONSOLES; currcons++) {
2882 vc_cons[currcons].d = vc = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct vc_data)); 2883 vc_cons[currcons].d = vc = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct vc_data));
2884 /*
2885 * Kmemleak does not track the memory allocated via
2886 * alloc_bootmem() but this block contains pointers to
2887 * other blocks allocated via kmalloc.
2888 */
2889 kmemleak_alloc(vc, sizeof(struct vc_data), 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
2883 INIT_WORK(&vc_cons[currcons].SAK_work, vc_SAK); 2890 INIT_WORK(&vc_cons[currcons].SAK_work, vc_SAK);
2884 visual_init(vc, currcons, 1); 2891 visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
2885 vc->vc_screenbuf = (unsigned short *)alloc_bootmem(vc->vc_screenbuf_size); 2892 vc->vc_screenbuf = (unsigned short *)alloc_bootmem(vc->vc_screenbuf_size);