About reuse address space when __init func removed

From: Jianpeng Ma
Date: Mon Oct 15 2012 - 04:52:06 EST


Hi all,
Today, I found some kernel message about memeleaking.As follows:
unreferenced object 0xffff8800b6e6b980 (size 64):
comm "modprobe", pid 1137, jiffies 4294676166 (age 7326.499s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 04 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 98 b5 00 88 ff ff ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff816a3f16>] kmemleak_alloc+0x56/0xc0
[<ffffffff8113bd43>] __kmalloc+0x173/0x310
[<ffffffffa009a78a>] 0xffffffffa009a78a
[<ffffffffa009ad95>] 0xffffffffa009ad95
[<ffffffff81300985>] pci_device_probe+0x75/0xa0
[<ffffffff814078c4>] driver_probe_device+0x84/0x380
[<ffffffff81407c63>] __driver_attach+0xa3/0xb0
[<ffffffff81405a96>] bus_for_each_dev+0x56/0x90
[<ffffffff81407359>] driver_attach+0x19/0x20
[<ffffffff81406e80>] bus_add_driver+0x1a0/0x2c0
[<ffffffff81408195>] driver_register+0x75/0x150
[<ffffffff812ffa1c>] __pci_register_driver+0x5c/0x70
[<ffffffffa00a20a7>] nfsd_last_thread+0x47/0x70 [nfsd]
[<ffffffff810001fa>] do_one_initcall+0x3a/0x170
[<ffffffff810a7d1c>] sys_init_module+0x8c/0x200
[<ffffffff816cc352>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

But the problem is not memleak, but the stack.
I noticed "[<ffffffffa00a20a7>] nfsd_last_thread+0x47/0x70 [nfsd]".But the real module is mvsas.
Why the kernel print nfsd?

I added some debuginfo in func mvs_init.
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c b/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c
index cc59dff..d34ce01 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c
@@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ static int __init mvs_init(void)
{
int rc;
mvs_stt = sas_domain_attach_transport(&mvs_transport_ops);
+ printk(KERN_ERR"%s:0x%lx\n", __func__, _THIS_IP_);
if (!mvs_stt)
return -ENOMEM;

The result is "[ 3.781487] mvs_init:0xffffffffa00a2000"

I think because the __init attribute.When mvs_init execd,those memeory removed and the address space alse removed.So after func nfsd_last_thread used those address.
Is it a bug?

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