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mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle NULL and zero-sized pointers
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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>
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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paulmckrcu committed Jan 22, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -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)) {
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