slab: fix to calm down kmemleak warning

After using struct page as slab management, we should not call
kmemleak_scan_area(), since struct page isn't the tracking object of
kmemleak. Without this patch and if CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK is enabled,
so many kmemleak warnings are printed.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index af2db76e1f5a..a8a93497d7d6 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2531,14 +2531,6 @@ static struct freelist *alloc_slabmgmt(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
                 /* Slab management obj is off-slab. */
                 freelist = kmem_cache_alloc_node(cachep->freelist_cache,
                                               local_flags, nodeid);
-                /*
-                 * If the first object in the slab is leaked (it's allocated
-                 * but no one has a reference to it), we want to make sure
-                 * kmemleak does not treat the ->s_mem pointer as a reference
-                 * to the object. Otherwise we will not report the leak.
-                 */
-                kmemleak_scan_area(&page->lru, sizeof(struct list_head),
-                                   local_flags);
                 if (!freelist)
                         return NULL;
         } else {