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>
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index af2db76..a8a9349 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2531,14 +2531,6 @@
/* 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 {