[PATCH 107/115] tracing: Fix leaks of filter preds

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon May 20 10:51:47 UTC 2013


3.5.7.13 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt at goodmis.org>

commit 60705c89460fdc7227f2d153b68b3f34814738a4 upstream.

Special preds are created when folding a series of preds that
can be done in serial. These are allocated in an ops field of
the pred structure. But they were never freed, causing memory
leaks.

This was discovered using the kmemleak checker:

unreferenced object 0xffff8800797fd5e0 (size 32):
  comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294690605 (age 104.608s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 01 00 03 00 05 00 07 00 09 00 0b 00 0d 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff814b52af>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98
    [<ffffffff8111ff84>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive.constprop.42+0x16/0x18
    [<ffffffff81120e68>] __kmalloc+0xd7/0x125
    [<ffffffff810d47eb>] kcalloc.constprop.24+0x2d/0x2f
    [<ffffffff810d4896>] fold_pred_tree_cb+0xa9/0xf4
    [<ffffffff810d3781>] walk_pred_tree+0x47/0xcc
    [<ffffffff810d5030>] replace_preds.isra.20+0x6f8/0x72f
    [<ffffffff810d50b5>] create_filter+0x4e/0x8b
    [<ffffffff81b1c30d>] ftrace_test_event_filter+0x5a/0x155
    [<ffffffff8100028d>] do_one_initcall+0xa0/0x137
    [<ffffffff81afbedf>] kernel_init_freeable+0x14d/0x1dc
    [<ffffffff814b24b7>] kernel_init+0xe/0xdb
    [<ffffffff814d539c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 431dba8..289197a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -777,7 +777,11 @@ static int filter_set_pred(struct event_filter *filter,
 
 static void __free_preds(struct event_filter *filter)
 {
+	int i;
+
 	if (filter->preds) {
+		for (i = 0; i < filter->n_preds; i++)
+			kfree(filter->preds[i].ops);
 		kfree(filter->preds);
 		filter->preds = NULL;
 	}
-- 
1.8.1.2





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