kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules

This section contains pointers to allocated objects and not scanning it
leads to false positives.

Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 1eb952097077..dd29ba43c34f 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2380,6 +2380,12 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
                                          "_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_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
         /* sechdrs[0].sh_size is always zero */