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[mm,percpu_ref,rcu,2/6] mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle NULL and zero-sized pointers

Message ID 20210106011750.13709-2-paulmck@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Headers show
Series Export return addresses etc. for better diagnostics | expand

Commit Message

Paul E. McKenney Jan. 6, 2021, 1:17 a.m. UTC 
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>

This commit makes mem_dump_obj() call out NULL and zero-sized pointers
specially instead of classifying them as non-paged memory.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 mm/util.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index da46f9d..92f23d2 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -997,7 +997,12 @@  int __weak memcmp_pages(struct page *page1, struct page *page2)
 void mem_dump_obj(void *object)
 {
 	if (!virt_addr_valid(object)) {
-		pr_cont(" non-paged (local) memory.\n");
+		if (object == NULL)
+			pr_cont(" NULL pointer.\n");
+		else if (object == ZERO_SIZE_PTR)
+			pr_cont(" zero-size pointer.\n");
+		else
+			pr_cont(" non-paged (local) memory.\n");
 		return;
 	}
 	if (kmem_valid_obj(object)) {