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authorVamshi K Sthambamkadi <vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com>2021-03-04 15:15:24 +0530
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2021-03-04 09:45:57 -0500
commitf40fc799afc598b3d130d5a0ada994c9d4fb6cf8 (patch)
tree5d8dcdec4209c7f5bf116cfa5a6d55e63aa2fe19 /kernel
parent6549de1fe34162d7ace8b870ae11ca6cae5b8609 (diff)
tracing: Fix memory leak in __create_synth_event()
kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xc5a6f708 (size 8): comm "ftracetest", pid 1209, jiffies 4294911500 (age 6.816s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 00 c1 3d 60 14 83 1f 8a ..=`.... backtrace: [<f0aa4ac4>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x2a6/0x460 [<7d3d60a6>] kstrndup+0x37/0x70 [<45a0e739>] argv_split+0x1c/0x120 [<c17982f8>] __create_synth_event+0x192/0xb00 [<0708b8a3>] create_synth_event+0xbb/0x150 [<3d1941e1>] create_dyn_event+0x5c/0xb0 [<5cf8b9e3>] trace_parse_run_command+0xa7/0x140 [<04deb2ef>] dyn_event_write+0x10/0x20 [<8779ac95>] vfs_write+0xa9/0x3c0 [<ed93722a>] ksys_write+0x89/0xc0 [<b9ca0507>] __ia32_sys_write+0x15/0x20 [<7ce02d85>] __do_fast_syscall_32+0x45/0x80 [<cb0ecb35>] do_fast_syscall_32+0x29/0x60 [<2467454a>] do_SYSENTER_32+0x15/0x20 [<9beaa61d>] entry_SYSENTER_32+0xa9/0xfc unreferenced object 0xc5a6f078 (size 8): comm "ftracetest", pid 1209, jiffies 4294911500 (age 6.816s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 08 f7 a6 c5 00 00 00 00 ........ backtrace: [<bbac096a>] __kmalloc+0x2b6/0x470 [<aa2624b4>] argv_split+0x82/0x120 [<c17982f8>] __create_synth_event+0x192/0xb00 [<0708b8a3>] create_synth_event+0xbb/0x150 [<3d1941e1>] create_dyn_event+0x5c/0xb0 [<5cf8b9e3>] trace_parse_run_command+0xa7/0x140 [<04deb2ef>] dyn_event_write+0x10/0x20 [<8779ac95>] vfs_write+0xa9/0x3c0 [<ed93722a>] ksys_write+0x89/0xc0 [<b9ca0507>] __ia32_sys_write+0x15/0x20 [<7ce02d85>] __do_fast_syscall_32+0x45/0x80 [<cb0ecb35>] do_fast_syscall_32+0x29/0x60 [<2467454a>] do_SYSENTER_32+0x15/0x20 [<9beaa61d>] entry_SYSENTER_32+0xa9/0xfc In __create_synth_event(), while iterating field/type arguments, the argv_split() will return array of atleast 2 elements even when zero arguments(argc=0) are passed. for e.g. when there is double delimiter or string ends with delimiter To fix call argv_free() even when argc=0. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210304094521.GA1826@cosmos Signed-off-by: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi <vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
index 2979a96595b4..8d71e6c83f10 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
@@ -1225,8 +1225,10 @@ static int __create_synth_event(const char *name, const char *raw_fields)
goto err;
}
- if (!argc)
+ if (!argc) {
+ argv_free(argv);
continue;
+ }
n_fields_this_loop = 0;
consumed = 0;