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>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 1eb9520..dd29ba4 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2380,6 +2380,12 @@
"_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 */