PCI: hv: Avoid a kmemleak false positive caused by the hbus buffer

With the recent 59bb47985c1d ("mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural
alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)"), kzalloc() is able to allocate
a 4KB buffer that is guaranteed to be 4KB-aligned. Here the size and
alignment of hbus is important because hbus's field
retarget_msi_interrupt_params must not cross a 4KB page boundary.

Here we prefer kzalloc to get_zeroed_page(), because a buffer
allocated by the latter is not tracked and scanned by kmemleak, and
hence kmemleak reports the pointer contained in the hbus buffer
(i.e. the hpdev struct, which is created in new_pcichild_device() and
is tracked by hbus->children) as memory leak (false positive).

If the kernel doesn't have 59bb47985c1d, get_zeroed_page() *must* be
used to allocate the hbus buffer and we can avoid the kmemleak false
positive by using kmemleak_alloc() and kmemleak_free() to ask
kmemleak to track and scan the hbus buffer.

Reported-by: Lili Deng <v-lide@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
index 910fa016d095..be99862166d0 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c
@@ -2902,9 +2902,27 @@ static int hv_pci_probe(struct hv_device *hdev,
 	 * hv_pcibus_device contains the hypercall arguments for retargeting in
 	 * hv_irq_unmask(). Those must not cross a page boundary.
 	 */
-	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*hbus) > PAGE_SIZE);
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*hbus) > HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE);
 
-	hbus = (struct hv_pcibus_device *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	/*
+	 * With the recent 59bb47985c1d ("mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural
+	 * alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)"), kzalloc() is able to allocate
+	 * a 4KB buffer that is guaranteed to be 4KB-aligned. Here the size and
+	 * alignment of hbus is important because hbus's field
+	 * retarget_msi_interrupt_params must not cross a 4KB page boundary.
+	 *
+	 * Here we prefer kzalloc to get_zeroed_page(), because a buffer
+	 * allocated by the latter is not tracked and scanned by kmemleak, and
+	 * hence kmemleak reports the pointer contained in the hbus buffer
+	 * (i.e. the hpdev struct, which is created in new_pcichild_device() and
+	 * is tracked by hbus->children) as memory leak (false positive).
+	 *
+	 * If the kernel doesn't have 59bb47985c1d, get_zeroed_page() *must* be
+	 * used to allocate the hbus buffer and we can avoid the kmemleak false
+	 * positive by using kmemleak_alloc() and kmemleak_free() to ask
+	 * kmemleak to track and scan the hbus buffer.
+	 */
+	hbus = (struct hv_pcibus_device *)kzalloc(HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hbus)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	hbus->state = hv_pcibus_init;
@@ -3133,7 +3151,7 @@ static int hv_pci_remove(struct hv_device *hdev)
 
 	hv_put_dom_num(hbus->sysdata.domain);
 
-	free_page((unsigned long)hbus);
+	kfree(hbus);
 	return ret;
 }