kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives

There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but
they are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them. For more
information on false positives, see Documentation/kmemleak.txt.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Catalin Marinas 2009-06-11 13:24:13 +01:00
parent 4f2294b6dc
commit 2e1483c995
3 changed files with 18 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#include <linux/uio.h>
#include <linux/namei.h>
#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include "internal.h"
@ -492,6 +493,11 @@ void __init bdev_cache_init(void)
bd_mnt = kern_mount(&bd_type);
if (IS_ERR(bd_mnt))
panic("Cannot create bdev pseudo-fs");
/*
* This vfsmount structure is only used to obtain the
* blockdev_superblock, so tell kmemleak not to report it.
*/
kmemleak_not_leak(bd_mnt);
blockdev_superblock = bd_mnt->mnt_sb; /* For writeback */
}