tracing/filters: fix bug in copy_pred()
authorTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:26:42 +0000 (03:26 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:30:36 +0000 (09:30 +0100)
Impact: fix potential crash on subsystem filter expression freeing

When making a copy of the predicate, pred->field_name needs to be
duplicated in the copy as well, otherwise bad things can happen due to
later multiple frees of the same string.

This affects only per-subsystem event filtering.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237796802.7527.39.camel@charm-linux>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

index c4a413b70f78d932f35519bbf0a37defde00682f..fd01d8022ad175f0a79ac02c41016a80e289a1eb 100644 (file)
@@ -276,11 +276,19 @@ static struct filter_pred *copy_pred(struct filter_pred *pred)
                return NULL;
 
        memcpy(new_pred, pred, sizeof(*pred));
+
+       if (pred->field_name) {
+               new_pred->field_name = kstrdup(pred->field_name, GFP_KERNEL);
+               if (!new_pred->field_name) {
+                       kfree(new_pred);
+                       return NULL;
+               }
+       }
+
        if (pred->str_val) {
                new_pred->str_val = kstrdup(pred->str_val, GFP_KERNEL);
-               new_pred->field_name = kstrdup(pred->field_name, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!new_pred->str_val) {
-                       kfree(new_pred);
+                       filter_free_pred(new_pred);
                        return NULL;
                }
        }