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in_softirq() is a wrong predicate to check if we are in a softirq
context.  It also returns true if we have BH disabled, so objects are
falsely stamped with "softirq" comm.  The correct predicate is
in_serving_softirq().

If user does cat from /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak previously they would
see this, which is clearly wrong, this is system call context (see the
comm):

unreferenced object 0xffff88805bd661c0 (size 64):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294942959 (age 12.400s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<0000000007dcb30c>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:55 [inline]
    [<0000000007dcb30c>] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:439 [inline]
    [<0000000007dcb30c>] slab_alloc mm/slab.c:3326 [inline]
    [<0000000007dcb30c>] kmem_cache...