net: sysctl: fix a kmemleak warning
the returned buffer of register_sysctl() is stored into net_header
variable, but net_header is not used after, and compiler maybe
optimise the variable out, and lead kmemleak reported the below warning
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294937448 (age 267.270s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
90 38 8b 01 c0 ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 .8..............
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffc00020f134>] create_object+0x10c/0x2a0
[<ffffffc00070ff44>] kmemleak_alloc+0x54/0xa0
[<ffffffc0001fe378>] __kmalloc+0x1f8/0x4f8
[<ffffffc00028e984>] __register_sysctl_table+0x64/0x5a0
[<ffffffc00028eef0>] register_sysctl+0x30/0x40
[<ffffffc00099c304>] net_sysctl_init+0x20/0x58
[<ffffffc000994dd8>] sock_init+0x10/0xb0
[<ffffffc0000842e0>] do_one_initcall+0x90/0x1b8
[<ffffffc000966bac>] kernel_init_freeable+0x218/0x2f0
[<ffffffc00070ed6c>] kernel_init+0x1c/0xe8
[<ffffffc000083bfc>] ret_from_fork+0xc/0x50
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff <<end check kmemleak>>
Before fix, the objdump result on ARM64:
0000000000000000 <net_sysctl_init>:
0: a9be7bfd stp x29, x30, [sp,#-32]!
4: 90000001 adrp x1, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
8: 90000000 adrp x0, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
c: 910003fd mov x29, sp
10: 91000021 add x1, x1, #0x0
14: 91000000 add x0, x0, #0x0
18: a90153f3 stp x19, x20, [sp,#16]
1c: 12800174 mov w20, #0xfffffff4 // #-12
20: 94000000 bl 0 <register_sysctl>
24: b4000120 cbz x0, 48 <net_sysctl_init+0x48>
28: 90000013 adrp x19, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
2c: 91000273 add x19, x19, #0x0
30: 9101a260 add x0, x19, #0x68
34: 94000000 bl 0 <register_pernet_subsys>
38: 2a0003f4 mov w20, w0
3c: 35000060 cbnz w0, 48 <net_sysctl_init+0x48>
40: aa1303e0 mov x0, x19
44: 94000000 bl 0 <register_sysctl_root>
48: 2a1403e0 mov w0, w20
4c: a94153f3 ldp x19, x20, [sp,#16]
50: a8c27bfd ldp x29, x30, [sp],#32
54: d65f03c0 ret
After:
0000000000000000 <net_sysctl_init>:
0: a9bd7bfd stp x29, x30, [sp,#-48]!
4: 90000000 adrp x0, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
8: 910003fd mov x29, sp
c: a90153f3 stp x19, x20, [sp,#16]
10: 90000013 adrp x19, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
14: 91000000 add x0, x0, #0x0
18: 91000273 add x19, x19, #0x0
1c: f90013f5 str x21, [sp,#32]
20: aa1303e1 mov x1, x19
24: 12800175 mov w21, #0xfffffff4 // #-12
28: 94000000 bl 0 <register_sysctl>
2c: f9002260 str x0, [x19,#64]
30: b40001a0 cbz x0, 64 <net_sysctl_init+0x64>
34: 90000014 adrp x20, 0 <net_sysctl_init>
38: 91000294 add x20, x20, #0x0
3c: 9101a280 add x0, x20, #0x68
40: 94000000 bl 0 <register_pernet_subsys>
44: 2a0003f5 mov w21, w0
48: 35000080 cbnz w0, 58 <net_sysctl_init+0x58>
4c: aa1403e0 mov x0, x20
50: 94000000 bl 0 <register_sysctl_root>
54: 14000004 b 64 <net_sysctl_init+0x64>
58: f9402260 ldr x0, [x19,#64]
5c: 94000000 bl 0 <unregister_sysctl_table>
60: f900227f str xzr, [x19,#64]
64: 2a1503e0 mov w0, w21
68: f94013f5 ldr x21, [sp,#32]
6c: a94153f3 ldp x19, x20, [sp,#16]
70: a8c37bfd ldp x29, x30, [sp],#48
74: d65f03c0 ret
Add the possible error handle to free the net_header to remove the
kmemleak warning
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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