kmemleak: Do no create the clean-up thread during kmemleak_disable()

The kmemleak_disable() function could be called from various contexts
including IRQ. It creates a clean-up thread but the kthread_create()
function has restrictions on which contexts it can be called from,
mainly because of the kthread_create_lock. The patch changes the
kmemleak clean-up thread to a workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 74d4089d7588f6264e22e9c97af7f675fe2fbafa..1563de4564417662cd66bd2e29f4c7ed0a4a5d30 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/nodemask.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
@@ -1499,7 +1500,7 @@ static const struct file_operations kmemleak_fops = {
  * Perform the freeing of the kmemleak internal objects after waiting for any
  * current memory scan to complete.
  */
-static int kmemleak_cleanup_thread(void *arg)
+static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
 {
        struct kmemleak_object *object;
 
@@ -1511,22 +1512,9 @@ static int kmemleak_cleanup_thread(void *arg)
                delete_object_full(object->pointer);
        rcu_read_unlock();
        mutex_unlock(&scan_mutex);
-
-       return 0;
 }
 
-/*
- * Start the clean-up thread.
- */
-static void kmemleak_cleanup(void)
-{
-       struct task_struct *cleanup_thread;
-
-       cleanup_thread = kthread_run(kmemleak_cleanup_thread, NULL,
-                                    "kmemleak-clean");
-       if (IS_ERR(cleanup_thread))
-               pr_warning("Failed to create the clean-up thread\n");
-}
+static DECLARE_WORK(cleanup_work, kmemleak_do_cleanup);
 
 /*
  * Disable kmemleak. No memory allocation/freeing will be traced once this
@@ -1544,7 +1532,7 @@ static void kmemleak_disable(void)
 
        /* check whether it is too early for a kernel thread */
        if (atomic_read(&kmemleak_initialized))
-               kmemleak_cleanup();
+               schedule_work(&cleanup_work);
 
        pr_info("Kernel memory leak detector disabled\n");
 }
@@ -1640,7 +1628,7 @@ static int __init kmemleak_late_init(void)
                 * after setting kmemleak_initialized and we may end up with
                 * two clean-up threads but serialized by scan_mutex.
                 */
-               kmemleak_cleanup();
+               schedule_work(&cleanup_work);
                return -ENOMEM;
        }