From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8581DC169C4 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2019 13:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6020C218D8 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2019 13:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728319AbfBCNv4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2019 08:51:56 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:54320 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728795AbfBCNuh (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2019 08:50:37 -0500 Received: from cable-78.29.236.164.coditel.net ([78.29.236.164] helo=deadeye) by shadbolt.decadent.org.uk with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqIAN-0003to-PY; Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:50:35 +0000 Received: from ben by deadeye with local (Exim 4.92-RC4) (envelope-from ) id 1gqI9s-0007PZ-Gi; Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:50:04 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov , "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" , "Tom Zanussi" Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:45:08 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Subject: [PATCH 3.16 278/305] tracing: Fix memory leak in set_trigger_filter() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 78.29.236.164 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.63-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" commit 3cec638b3d793b7cacdec5b8072364b41caeb0e1 upstream. When create_event_filter() fails in set_trigger_filter(), the filter may still be allocated and needs to be freed. The caller expects the data->filter to be updated with the new filter, even if the new filter failed (we could add an error message by setting set_str parameter of create_event_filter(), but that's another update). But because the error would just exit, filter was left hanging and nothing could free it. Found by kmemleak detector. Fixes: bac5fb97a173a ("tracing: Add and use generic set_trigger_filter() implementation") Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c @@ -727,8 +727,10 @@ static int set_trigger_filter(char *filt /* The filter is for the 'trigger' event, not the triggered event */ ret = create_event_filter(file->event_call, filter_str, false, &filter); - if (ret) - goto out; + /* + * If create_event_filter() fails, filter still needs to be freed. + * Which the calling code will do with data->filter. + */ assign: tmp = rcu_access_pointer(data->filter);