kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules

This section contains pointers to allocated objects and not scanning it
leads to false positives.
Reported-by: NZdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

kernel/module.c

@@ -2380,6 +2380,12 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
 					 "_ftrace_events",
 					 sizeof(*mod->trace_events),
 					 &mod->num_trace_events);
+	/*
+	 * This section contains pointers to allocated objects in the trace
+	 * code and not scanning it leads to false positives.
+	 */
+	kmemleak_scan_area(mod->trace_events, sizeof(*mod->trace_events) *
+			   mod->num_trace_events, GFP_KERNEL);
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
 	/* sechdrs[0].sh_size is always zero */