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kmemleak: No need for scanning specific module sections

As kmemleak now scans all module sections that are allocated, writable
and non executable, there's no need to scan individual sections that
might reference data.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Steven Rostedt 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 0 additions and 13 deletions
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      kernel/module.c

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kernel/module.c

@@ -2769,24 +2769,11 @@ static void find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
 	mod->trace_events = section_objs(info, "_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_TRACING
 	mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start = section_objs(info, "__trace_printk_fmt",
 					 sizeof(*mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start),
 					 &mod->num_trace_bprintk_fmt);
-	/*
-	 * This section contains pointers to allocated objects in the trace
-	 * code and not scanning it leads to false positives.
-	 */
-	kmemleak_scan_area(mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start,
-			   sizeof(*mod->trace_bprintk_fmt_start) *
-			   mod->num_trace_bprintk_fmt, GFP_KERNEL);
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
 	/* sechdrs[0].sh_size is always zero */