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[BROKEN] common/rc: fix check for disabled kmemleak

Message ID 20180918104456.12778-1-amir73il@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
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Series [BROKEN] common/rc: fix check for disabled kmemleak | expand

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Amir Goldstein Sept. 18, 2018, 10:44 a.m. UTC
With kernel commit b353756b2b71 ("kmemleak: always register debugfs file")
that was merged to v4.19-rc3, the kmemleak debugfs knob exists even if
kmemleak is disabled, but returns EBUSY on write.

Suppress EBUSY errors from _check_kmemleak() by removing write permission
from knob on failure to initialize kmemleak.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---

Guys,

With kernel v4.19-rc3, tests started printing noisy messages about failure
to write to kmemleak knob.

Problem is that kmemleak was disabled on my system but the test for
kmemleak enabled we have in place was broken by the kernel change.

I tried this patch to hack around the new kernel behavior, but something
is broken in this patch as it doesn't suppress all errors.
For me, I prefer to have kmemleak enabled anyway, so I gave up on this
hack and enabled kmemleak.

If someone is interested in taking over, be my guest.

FYI, to enable kmemleak on kvm-xfstests I needed to configure
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE=5000
# CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF is not set

Thanks,
Amir.

 common/rc | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Darrick J. Wong Sept. 18, 2018, 2:29 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 01:44:56PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> With kernel commit b353756b2b71 ("kmemleak: always register debugfs file")
> that was merged to v4.19-rc3, the kmemleak debugfs knob exists even if
> kmemleak is disabled, but returns EBUSY on write.
> 
> Suppress EBUSY errors from _check_kmemleak() by removing write permission
> from knob on failure to initialize kmemleak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

Ewww, but I guess it works... :)

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

--D

> ---
> 
> Guys,
> 
> With kernel v4.19-rc3, tests started printing noisy messages about failure
> to write to kmemleak knob.
> 
> Problem is that kmemleak was disabled on my system but the test for
> kmemleak enabled we have in place was broken by the kernel change.
> 
> I tried this patch to hack around the new kernel behavior, but something
> is broken in this patch as it doesn't suppress all errors.
> For me, I prefer to have kmemleak enabled anyway, so I gave up on this
> hack and enabled kmemleak.
> 
> If someone is interested in taking over, be my guest.
> 
> FYI, to enable kmemleak on kvm-xfstests I needed to configure
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE=5000
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF is not set
> 
> Thanks,
> Amir.
> 
>  common/rc | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
> index ec631ad9..cafc83b4 100644
> --- a/common/rc
> +++ b/common/rc
> @@ -3514,8 +3514,14 @@ _init_kmemleak()
>  
>  	# Disable the automatic scan so that we can control it completely,
>  	# then dump all the leaks recorded so far.
> -	echo "scan=off" > "$kern_knob"
> -	_capture_kmemleak /dev/null
> +	if echo "scan=off" > "$kern_knob" 2>/dev/null; then
> +		_capture_kmemleak /dev/null
> +	else
> +		# Since kernel v4.19-rc3, the knob exists even if kmemleak is
> +		# disabled, but returns EBUSY on write. Suppress EBUSY errors
> +		# from _check_kmemleak() by removing write permission from knob
> +		chmod a-w "$kern_knob"
> +	fi
>  }
>  
>  # check kmemleak log
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>
Amir Goldstein Sept. 18, 2018, 3:18 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 5:29 PM Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 01:44:56PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > With kernel commit b353756b2b71 ("kmemleak: always register debugfs file")
> > that was merged to v4.19-rc3, the kmemleak debugfs knob exists even if
> > kmemleak is disabled, but returns EBUSY on write.
> >
> > Suppress EBUSY errors from _check_kmemleak() by removing write permission
> > from knob on failure to initialize kmemleak.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
>
> Ewww, but I guess it works... :)
>

Ewww indeed, but what I wrote below is that it doesn't work,
but I couldn't figure out why.
In manual tests the method works, but some elusive detail
in the scripts must have escaped me and I still get some EBUSY
errors when running with this patch and kmemleak disabled.

Thanks,
Amir.

>
> --D
>
> > ---
> >
> > Guys,
> >
> > With kernel v4.19-rc3, tests started printing noisy messages about failure
> > to write to kmemleak knob.
> >
> > Problem is that kmemleak was disabled on my system but the test for
> > kmemleak enabled we have in place was broken by the kernel change.
> >
> > I tried this patch to hack around the new kernel behavior, but something
> > is broken in this patch as it doesn't suppress all errors.
> > For me, I prefer to have kmemleak enabled anyway, so I gave up on this
> > hack and enabled kmemleak.
> >
> > If someone is interested in taking over, be my guest.
> >
> > FYI, to enable kmemleak on kvm-xfstests I needed to configure
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE=5000
> > # CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF is not set
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Amir.
> >
> >  common/rc | 10 ++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
> > index ec631ad9..cafc83b4 100644
> > --- a/common/rc
> > +++ b/common/rc
> > @@ -3514,8 +3514,14 @@ _init_kmemleak()
> >
> >       # Disable the automatic scan so that we can control it completely,
> >       # then dump all the leaks recorded so far.
> > -     echo "scan=off" > "$kern_knob"
> > -     _capture_kmemleak /dev/null
> > +     if echo "scan=off" > "$kern_knob" 2>/dev/null; then
> > +             _capture_kmemleak /dev/null
> > +     else
> > +             # Since kernel v4.19-rc3, the knob exists even if kmemleak is
> > +             # disabled, but returns EBUSY on write. Suppress EBUSY errors
> > +             # from _check_kmemleak() by removing write permission from knob
> > +             chmod a-w "$kern_knob"
> > +     fi
> >  }
> >
> >  # check kmemleak log
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
Eryu Guan Sept. 22, 2018, 2:19 p.m. UTC | #3
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 01:44:56PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> With kernel commit b353756b2b71 ("kmemleak: always register debugfs file")
> that was merged to v4.19-rc3, the kmemleak debugfs knob exists even if
> kmemleak is disabled, but returns EBUSY on write.
> 
> Suppress EBUSY errors from _check_kmemleak() by removing write permission
> from knob on failure to initialize kmemleak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> Guys,
> 
> With kernel v4.19-rc3, tests started printing noisy messages about failure
> to write to kmemleak knob.
> 
> Problem is that kmemleak was disabled on my system but the test for
> kmemleak enabled we have in place was broken by the kernel change.
> 
> I tried this patch to hack around the new kernel behavior, but something
> is broken in this patch as it doesn't suppress all errors.

I guess that's because root has writable permission even if the file has
no 'w' permission bit set, i.e the "if [ ! -w $kern_knob ]" check never
triggers even if we "chmod a-w $kern_knob".

But, on the other hand, I prefer not changing a system file's permission
in test (even if it could hack around the issue). Checking if a special
file exists would be better, like what we do in _check_dmesg and
_check_filesystems.

For example, touch $RESULT_BASE/check_kmemleak in _init_kmemleak if
kmemleak is available, remove the file otherwise. Note that we cannot
create this file in $RESULT_DIR like other similar checks because it's
not initialized at _init_kmemleak time.

Thanks,
Eryu

> For me, I prefer to have kmemleak enabled anyway, so I gave up on this
> hack and enabled kmemleak.
> 
> If someone is interested in taking over, be my guest.
> 
> FYI, to enable kmemleak on kvm-xfstests I needed to configure
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE=5000
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF is not set
> 
> Thanks,
> Amir.
> 
>  common/rc | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
> index ec631ad9..cafc83b4 100644
> --- a/common/rc
> +++ b/common/rc
> @@ -3514,8 +3514,14 @@ _init_kmemleak()
>  
>  	# Disable the automatic scan so that we can control it completely,
>  	# then dump all the leaks recorded so far.
> -	echo "scan=off" > "$kern_knob"
> -	_capture_kmemleak /dev/null
> +	if echo "scan=off" > "$kern_knob" 2>/dev/null; then
> +		_capture_kmemleak /dev/null
> +	else
> +		# Since kernel v4.19-rc3, the knob exists even if kmemleak is
> +		# disabled, but returns EBUSY on write. Suppress EBUSY errors
> +		# from _check_kmemleak() by removing write permission from knob
> +		chmod a-w "$kern_knob"
> +	fi
>  }
>  
>  # check kmemleak log
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>
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diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
index ec631ad9..cafc83b4 100644
--- a/common/rc
+++ b/common/rc
@@ -3514,8 +3514,14 @@  _init_kmemleak()
 
 	# Disable the automatic scan so that we can control it completely,
 	# then dump all the leaks recorded so far.
-	echo "scan=off" > "$kern_knob"
-	_capture_kmemleak /dev/null
+	if echo "scan=off" > "$kern_knob" 2>/dev/null; then
+		_capture_kmemleak /dev/null
+	else
+		# Since kernel v4.19-rc3, the knob exists even if kmemleak is
+		# disabled, but returns EBUSY on write. Suppress EBUSY errors
+		# from _check_kmemleak() by removing write permission from knob
+		chmod a-w "$kern_knob"
+	fi
 }
 
 # check kmemleak log