tracing: Fix freeing of filter in create_filter() when set_str is false
authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:46:27 +0000 (12:46 -0400)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:07:38 +0000 (10:07 -0400)
Performing the following task with kmemleak enabled:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/
 # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq >' > trigger
 # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq > 31' > trigger
 # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff8800b9290308 (size 32):
  comm "bash", pid 1114, jiffies 4294848451 (age 141.139s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81cef5aa>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [<ffffffff81357938>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x158/0x290
    [<ffffffff81261c09>] create_filter_start.constprop.28+0x99/0x940
    [<ffffffff812639c9>] create_filter+0xa9/0x160
    [<ffffffff81263bdc>] create_event_filter+0xc/0x10
    [<ffffffff812655e5>] set_trigger_filter+0xe5/0x210
    [<ffffffff812660c4>] event_enable_trigger_func+0x324/0x490
    [<ffffffff812652e2>] event_trigger_write+0x1a2/0x260
    [<ffffffff8138cf87>] __vfs_write+0xd7/0x380
    [<ffffffff8138f421>] vfs_write+0x101/0x260
    [<ffffffff8139187b>] SyS_write+0xab/0x130
    [<ffffffff81cfd501>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

The function create_filter() is passed a 'filterp' pointer that gets
allocated, and if "set_str" is true, it is up to the caller to free it, even
on error. The problem is that the pointer is not freed by create_filter()
when set_str is false. This is a bug, and it is not up to the caller to free
the filter on error if it doesn't care about the string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502705898-27571-2-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 38b78eb85 ("tracing: Factorize filter creation")
Reported-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

index 59a411ff60c709834121fc70363c74560dfe1ff5..181e139a8057bed695ad6d1d7460036e378f5ca0 100644 (file)
@@ -1959,6 +1959,10 @@ static int create_filter(struct trace_event_call *call,
                if (err && set_str)
                        append_filter_err(ps, filter);
        }
+       if (err && !set_str) {
+               free_event_filter(filter);
+               filter = NULL;
+       }
        create_filter_finish(ps);
 
        *filterp = filter;