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kmemleak: add checksum to backtrace report
authorJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:43:18 +0000 (15:43 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:16:36 +0000 (13:16 -0800)
commit799583fb7717356982d35a1b61f3a7ef7ff71206
tree50906dbf9bb1014331de26069ec469a892021ec0
parentf72b78e92038fe36cd08236b8e5d723cf5f6207f
kmemleak: add checksum to backtrace report

Change /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak report format slightly, adding
"(extra info)" to the backtrace header:

from: "  backtrace:"
to:   "  backtrace (crc <cksum>):"

The <cksum> allows a user to see recurring backtraces without
detailed/careful reading of multiline stacks.  So after cycling
kmemleak-test a few times, I know some leaks are repeating.

  bash-5.2# grep backtrace /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak | wc
     62     186    1792
  bash-5.2# grep backtrace /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak | sort -u | wc
     37     111    1067

syzkaller parses kmemleak for "unreferenced object" only, so is
unaffected by this change.  Other github repos are moribund.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116224318.124209-3-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/kmemleak.c