Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6

* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Inform kmemleak about pid_hash
  kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freed
  kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stopped
  kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects
  kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file
  kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread
  kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default
  kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 31310b5d3f50..5fa1db48d8b7 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
 #include <linux/init_task.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 
 #define pid_hashfn(nr, ns)      \
         hash_long((unsigned long)nr + (unsigned long)ns, pidhash_shift)
@@ -512,6 +513,12 @@ void __init pidhash_init(void)
         pid_hash = alloc_bootmem(pidhash_size * sizeof(*(pid_hash)));
         if (!pid_hash)
                 panic("Could not alloc pidhash!\n");
+        /*
+         * pid_hash contains references to allocated struct pid objects and it
+         * must be scanned by kmemleak to avoid false positives.
+         */
+        kmemleak_alloc(pid_hash, pidhash_size * sizeof(*(pid_hash)), 0,
+                       GFP_KERNEL);
         for (i = 0; i < pidhash_size; i++)
                 INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&pid_hash[i]);
 }