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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Trace Kernel <linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr>,
	Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Free error logs of tracing instances
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 19:45:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230404194504.5790b95f@gandalf.local.home> (raw)

From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

When a tracing instance is removed, the error messages that hold errors
that occurred in the instance needs to be freed. The following reports a
memory leak:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
 # mkdir instances/foo
 # echo 'hist:keys=x' > instances/foo/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
 # cat instances/foo/error_log
 [  117.404795] hist:sched:sched_switch: error: Couldn't find field
   Command: hist:keys=x
                      ^
 # rmdir instances/foo

Then check for memory leaks:

 # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810d8ec700 (size 192):
  comm "bash", pid 869, jiffies 4294950577 (age 215.752s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    60 dd 68 61 81 88 ff ff 60 dd 68 61 81 88 ff ff  `.ha....`.ha....
    a0 30 8c 83 ff ff ff ff 26 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00  .0......&.......
  backtrace:
    [<00000000dae26536>] kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xa0
    [<00000000b2938940>] tracing_log_err+0x277/0x2e0
    [<000000004a0e1b07>] parse_atom+0x966/0xb40
    [<0000000023b24337>] parse_expr+0x5f3/0xdb0
    [<00000000594ad074>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x27f8/0x3560
    [<00000000293a9645>] trigger_process_regex+0x135/0x1a0
    [<000000005c22b4f2>] event_trigger_write+0x87/0xf0
    [<000000002cadc509>] vfs_write+0x162/0x670
    [<0000000059c3b9be>] ksys_write+0xca/0x170
    [<00000000f1cddc00>] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0xc0
    [<00000000868ac68c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
unreferenced object 0xffff888170c35a00 (size 32):
  comm "bash", pid 869, jiffies 4294950577 (age 215.752s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    0a 20 20 43 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 3a 20 68 69 73 74  .  Command: hist
    3a 6b 65 79 73 3d 78 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  :keys=x.........
  backtrace:
    [<000000006a747de5>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x160
    [<000000000039df5f>] tracing_log_err+0x29b/0x2e0
    [<000000004a0e1b07>] parse_atom+0x966/0xb40
    [<0000000023b24337>] parse_expr+0x5f3/0xdb0
    [<00000000594ad074>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x27f8/0x3560
    [<00000000293a9645>] trigger_process_regex+0x135/0x1a0
    [<000000005c22b4f2>] event_trigger_write+0x87/0xf0
    [<000000002cadc509>] vfs_write+0x162/0x670
    [<0000000059c3b9be>] ksys_write+0xca/0x170
    [<00000000f1cddc00>] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0xc0
    [<00000000868ac68c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

The problem is that the error log needs to be freed when the instance is
removed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/76134d9f-a5ba-6a0d-37b3-28310b4a1e91@alu.unizg.hr/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2f754e771b1a6 ("tracing: Have the error logs show up in the proper instances")
Reported-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 8ae51f1dea8e..352a804b016d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -9516,6 +9516,7 @@ static int __remove_instance(struct trace_array *tr)
 	tracefs_remove(tr->dir);
 	free_percpu(tr->last_func_repeats);
 	free_trace_buffers(tr);
+	clear_tracing_err_log(tr);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < tr->nr_topts; i++) {
 		kfree(tr->topts[i].topts);
-- 
2.39.2


             reply	other threads:[~2023-04-04 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-04 23:45 Steven Rostedt [this message]
2023-04-05  3:57 ` [PATCH] tracing: Free error logs of tracing instances Mirsad Goran Todorovac
2023-04-05 10:47   ` Mirsad Goran Todorovac
2023-04-05 13:56     ` Steven Rostedt
2023-04-06  1:46 ` Masami Hiramatsu

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