Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6

* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
  kmemleak: Reduce the false positives by checking for modified objects
  kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object
  kmemleak: Release the object lock before calling put_object()
  kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules
  kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype
  kmemleak: Do not use off-slab management with SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 3f48229..e17cc2c 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2275,9 +2275,11 @@ kmem_cache_create (const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
 	/*
 	 * Determine if the slab management is 'on' or 'off' slab.
 	 * (bootstrapping cannot cope with offslab caches so don't do
-	 * it too early on.)
+	 * it too early on. Always use on-slab management when
+	 * SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE to avoid recursive calls into kmemleak)
 	 */
-	if ((size >= (PAGE_SIZE >> 3)) && !slab_early_init)
+	if ((size >= (PAGE_SIZE >> 3)) && !slab_early_init &&
+	    !(flags & SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE))
 		/*
 		 * Size is large, assume best to place the slab management obj
 		 * off-slab (should allow better packing of objs).
@@ -2596,8 +2598,8 @@ static struct slab *alloc_slabmgmt(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp,
 		 * kmemleak does not treat the ->s_mem pointer as a reference
 		 * to the object. Otherwise we will not report the leak.
 		 */
-		kmemleak_scan_area(slabp, offsetof(struct slab, list),
-				   sizeof(struct list_head), local_flags);
+		kmemleak_scan_area(&slabp->list, sizeof(struct list_head),
+				   local_flags);
 		if (!slabp)
 			return NULL;
 	} else {