Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: clear cfg80211_inform_bss() from kmemleak reports

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 13:43 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:17:17AM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:13 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > 
> > > What I meant is it gobbles it up and spits another thing out. When it
> > > gobbles it up the routine then uses kref_put().
> > > 
> > > > Why can it not track this?
> > > 
> > > It probably can, just not sure if it follows kref_put(), I was under
> > > the impression here it doesn't and because of it we were getting false
> > > positives. Catalin, can you confirm?
> > 
> > Ah I'd think that if it can't track it then that's because we use a
> > pointer to the middle of the struct to keep track of it much of the
> > time.
> 
> So you agree with the patch but not the commit log entry?

I'm not sure -- I think kmemleak should be able to figure it out, and if
you were using IBSS then we actually have a leak that we need to plug,
but otherwise I'd prefer to get some more input from Catalin first.

Catalin, is it conceivable that kmemleak reports false positives if we
use a struct like

struct pubbss {
...
};

struct bss {
...
struct pubbss pub;
};

and then keep track of &bss->pub; pointers instead of bss directly?

johannes

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